The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade: 1440-1870Simon and Schuster, 16.04.2013 г. - 912 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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... India was still none too close . In 1486 , the Portuguese sent João Afonso Aveiro to explore further the five “ slave ... Indian pepper than malaguetta . Aveiro was glad too to hear of a king in the East , the oghene , who concealed him ...
... India was still none too close . In 1486 , the Portuguese sent João Afonso Aveiro to explore further the five “ slave ... Indian pepper than malaguetta . Aveiro was glad too to hear of a king in the East , the oghene , who concealed him ...
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... India . Some of the royal counselors thought that the voyage would be too expensive and that Portugal would do better to ... Indian Ocean - if indeed that sea ex- isted . But , benefiting from the achievements of his predecessors , espe ...
... India . Some of the royal counselors thought that the voyage would be too expensive and that Portugal would do better to ... Indian Ocean - if indeed that sea ex- isted . But , benefiting from the achievements of his predecessors , espe ...
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... India , discovering Brazil on the way ( the Anunciada was later used in the Valencian slave trade ) . Marchionni invested heavily also in subsequent voyages to India and , in 1501 , the fleet of João da Nova not only included ships ...
... India , discovering Brazil on the way ( the Anunciada was later used in the Valencian slave trade ) . Marchionni invested heavily also in subsequent voyages to India and , in 1501 , the fleet of João da Nova not only included ships ...
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... Indian population had not yet begun anything in the way of vertiginous decline . The trade in the Indians never reached the dimensions promised by Columbus but , all the same , three hundred disappointed Spanish immi- grants to ...
... Indian population had not yet begun anything in the way of vertiginous decline . The trade in the Indians never reached the dimensions promised by Columbus but , all the same , three hundred disappointed Spanish immi- grants to ...
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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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