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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... West Indies , from which his cap- tains sometimes presumably returned with slaves , and delivered them in North America - for example , in South Carolina . Lopez , like Abraham Redwood , was as philanthropic as he was successful . The ...
... West Indies , from which his cap- tains sometimes presumably returned with slaves , and delivered them in North America - for example , in South Carolina . Lopez , like Abraham Redwood , was as philanthropic as he was successful . The ...
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... West Indies . " 26 All the commanders of the British forts - John Dixon in Commenda , Thomas Trinder in Fort James , Accra , and Lionel Alson in Fort William , Whydah - reported that trade was bad because of difficulties among the ...
... West Indies . " 26 All the commanders of the British forts - John Dixon in Commenda , Thomas Trinder in Fort James , Accra , and Lionel Alson in Fort William , Whydah - reported that trade was bad because of difficulties among the ...
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... West , Indies ? Could it be that the West Indies were in decline , after the American War of Independence ? Those economic arguments neglect the fact that statesmen are as often in- fluenced by idealism as by ambition . Nor were the West ...
... West , Indies ? Could it be that the West Indies were in decline , after the American War of Independence ? Those economic arguments neglect the fact that statesmen are as often in- fluenced by idealism as by ambition . Nor were the West ...
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List of Maps 79 | 7 |
Introduction | 9 |
GREEN SEA OF DARKNESS | 19 |
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