The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade: 1440 - 1870

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Simon and Schuster, 1997 - 908 страници
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, Hugh Thomas 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 controversial questions as who the traders were, the extent of the profits, and why so many African rulers and peoples willingly collaborated.

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Introduction
9
GREEN SEA OF DARKNESS
19
Humanity Is Divided into
25
The Portuguese Served for Setting Dogs to Spring the Game
48
For the Love of God Give Us a Pair of Slave Women
114
The White Men Arrived in Ships with Wings
128
THE INTERNATIONALIZATION OF THE TRADE
151
The Black Slave Is the Basis of the Hacienda
182
Above All a Good Soul
449
The Loudest Yelps for Liberty
467
The Gauntlet Had Been Thrown Down
486
Men in Africa of As Fine Feeling As Ourselves
512
Why Should We See Great Britain Getting All the Slave Trade?
537
The Slaver Is More Criminal Than the Assassin
591
Only the Poor Speak Ill of the Slave Trade
629
Active Exertions
651

Lawful to Set to
196
He Who Knows How to Supply the Slaves
210
No Nation Has Plunged So Deeply into This Guilt
235
By the Grace of
262
A Filthy Voyage
291
Great Pleasure from Our Wine
315
Slave Harbors I
332
Slave Harbors II
353
A Great Strait for Slaves
370
The Blackest Sort with Short Curled Hair
388
If You Want to Learn How to Pray Go to Sea
409
God Knows What We Shall Do with Those That Remain
431
Slave Harbors of the Nineteenth Century
673
Sharks Are the Invariable Outriders of All Slave Ships
709
Can We Resist the Torrent? I Think Not
727
They All Eagerly Desire It Protect It and Almost Sanctify It
747
Cuba the Forward Sentinel
769
Epilogue
786
Some Who Lived to Tell the Tale
799
Selected Prices of Slaves 14401870
806
Sources and Notes
812
Index
863
Illustration Credits
909
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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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