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The slave trade:

the story of the Atlantic slave trade, 1440-1870
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Simon & Schuster, 1997 - Business & Economics - 912 pages
After many years of research, award-winning historian Hugh Thomas portrays, in a balanced account, the complete history of the slave trade. Beginning with the first Portuguese slaving expeditions, he describes and analyzes the rise of one of the largest and most elaborate maritime and commercial ventures in all of history. Between 1492 and 1870, approximately eleven million black slaves were carried from Africa to the Americas to work on plantations, in mines, or as servants in houses. The Slave Trade is alive with villains and heroes and illuminated by eyewitness accounts. Hugh Thomas's achievement is not only to present a compelling history of the time but to answer as well such controversial questions as who the traders were, the extent of the profits, and why so many African rulers and peoples willingly collaborated. Thomas also movingly describes such accounts as are available from the slaves themselves.

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The Atlantic Slave Trade
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Green Sea of Darkness
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Copyright

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Garstang Fairtrade Town
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African History: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade.
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About the author (1997)

Hugh Thomas is the author of The Spanish Civil War, Conquest, and many other books. A former Chairman of the Centre for Policy Studies (U.K.), he was made Lord Thomas of Swinnerton in 1981. He is currently a University Professor at Boston University. He lives in London.

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TitleThe slave trade: the story of the Atlantic slave trade, 1440-1870
A Touchstone Book
AuthorHugh Thomas
Editionreprint, illustrated
PublisherSimon & Schuster, 1997
ISBN0684835657, 9780684835655
Length912 pages
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Business & Economics / International / General
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Slave trade
Slave trade - Africa
Slave trade - America
Slave trade - Europe
Slave trade - History
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Social Science / Discrimination & Race Relations
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