The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade: 1440 - 1870Simon & Schuster, 1997 - 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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... Atlantic to obtain what they wanted from the region of the Congo . Some of those last planters would club together to send a little fleet of , say , six ships across the South Atlantic . Such ventures enabled the people concerned to ...
... Atlantic to obtain what they wanted from the region of the Congo . Some of those last planters would club together to send a little fleet of , say , six ships across the South Atlantic . Such ventures enabled the people concerned to ...
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... Atlantic took , on Por- tuguese journeys in the seventeenth century , nearly thirty - five days from Angola to Pernambuco , forty to Bahia , and fifty to Rio . At the end of the eighteenth century , such voyages across the South Atlantic ...
... Atlantic took , on Por- tuguese journeys in the seventeenth century , nearly thirty - five days from Angola to Pernambuco , forty to Bahia , and fifty to Rio . At the end of the eighteenth century , such voyages across the South Atlantic ...
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... Atlantic slave trade was of the order of 15 million persons shipped between the fifteenth and the nine- teenth century . Historians , journalists , even demographers ( such as Kuczynski ) based their theories on this statistic . In one ...
... Atlantic slave trade was of the order of 15 million persons shipped between the fifteenth and the nine- teenth century . Historians , journalists , even demographers ( such as Kuczynski ) based their theories on this statistic . In one ...
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List of Maps 79 | 7 |
Introduction | 9 |
GREEN SEA OF DARKNESS | 19 |
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