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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... carried away . " Jobson was offered slaves by an African merchant , Buckor Sano but , speaking for himself and not for the Guinea Company , he declared proudly that " we were a people who did not deal in such commodities , neither did ...
... carried away . " Jobson was offered slaves by an African merchant , Buckor Sano but , speaking for himself and not for the Guinea Company , he declared proudly that " we were a people who did not deal in such commodities , neither did ...
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... carried by merchants and cap- tains primarily from Liverpool , which city sent over a hundred ships to Africa in 1771 for the first time , carrying more than twenty - eight thou- sand slaves . The largest ship of these , the Prince of ...
... carried by merchants and cap- tains primarily from Liverpool , which city sent over a hundred ships to Africa in 1771 for the first time , carrying more than twenty - eight thou- sand slaves . The largest ship of these , the Prince of ...
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... carried porcelain made in Seville in their cargoes to Africa in the 1770s : for example , " 3,200 docenas de loza de Sevilla " ( that is 3,200 sets of china ) were carried in the San Rafael , one of the first slave ships to leave Cádiz ...
... carried porcelain made in Seville in their cargoes to Africa in the 1770s : for example , " 3,200 docenas de loza de Sevilla " ( that is 3,200 sets of china ) were carried in the San Rafael , one of the first slave ships to leave Cádiz ...
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List of Maps 79 | 7 |
Introduction | 9 |
GREEN SEA OF DARKNESS | 19 |
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