A Slaver's Log Book, Or, 20 Years' Residence in Africa: The Original Manuscript
Abenteuer afrikanischer Sklavenhändler
Answers questions on who benefited from the slave trade, why Britain needed to buy and sell African people, what life was like as a slave, how runaways were treated, and why the slave trade was abolished.
What was the slave trade? - Life for black slaves - Slave merchants - Reasons why the slave trade was abolished - Toussaint L'Overture - William Wilberforce - British attempts to abolish slavery.
Traces the rise and development of the slave trade, describes how it changed over the centuries, and discusses the end of the Atlantic trade, the legal status of slaves and traders, and slave sales in the United States.
Om negerslaveriets start i Afrika allerede i romertiden, men især om slaveriet og slavernes forhold i de engelske kolonier i Vestindien og USA op til frigivelsen i 1838.
Follows the slave trade from its beginnings in the fifteenth century to its abolishment after the Civil War, and describes slavery's impact on the people bought and sold.
...a comprehensive portrait of slavery in the Islamic world from earliest times until today...D>--Arab Book World
Adding perceptive commentary to the eyewitness accounts of slave traders, slaveholders and slaves themselves, James Pope-Hennessy affords the reader a broad view of the turbulent his tory of a disgraceful institution - three and a half ...
Slavers arrive on horseback.