Chronicles the rise and fall of the business of slave trading, from fifteenth-century Portuguese slaving expeditions to the abolition of slavery in Cuba and Brazil twenty-five years after the American Emancipation Proclamation
Joinville was told that Souza had two thousand slaves in his barracoons, a thousand women in his harem, and that he had fathered eighty male children: "forts beaux mulatres," very well brought up, and dressed in white suits and panama ...
In the four centuries before the 1860s, the Atlantic slave trade transformed the face of the Americas, enhanced the material well-being of the West and wrought enormous damage on Africa....
Tells the history of black men and women around he world. Examines the thriving culture with primary sources.
Even after the importation of enslaved people was banned in 1808, slavery did not end in the US. Read this book to learn about the Middle Passage, the triangular trade, and the people who continued fighting for change after the importation ...
Biography of the former slave who became a successful merchant and leading influence in the abolition of slavery.
The rise and fall of the business of slave trading - by a bestselling historian
Examines the questions behind slavery and the slave trade, with a survey from the ancient world to the practice of slavery.
Discusses the slave trade in Africa, describing how Europeans started buying African slaves to work in the American colonies, what the trip to America was like, the work that the slaves did, and resistance to the slave trade.
Examines the slave trade from its beginnings in the fifteenth century to its abolishment after the Civil War and surveys the world both before and after the events.