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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... cause , " even dropping his plans to enter the Church , after talking at length to Dr. Ramsay at Admiral Middleton's dining table in Kent in the summer of 1786.9 In 1787 , a Committee for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade was ...
... cause , " even dropping his plans to enter the Church , after talking at length to Dr. Ramsay at Admiral Middleton's dining table in Kent in the summer of 1786.9 In 1787 , a Committee for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade was ...
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... cause . Clarkson was once threat- ened with assault on the quay , but his foresight in hiring a retired slave- ship surgeon from Bristol , Alexander Falconbridge , as his assistant and bodyguard preserved him from death . The activities ...
... cause . Clarkson was once threat- ened with assault on the quay , but his foresight in hiring a retired slave- ship surgeon from Bristol , Alexander Falconbridge , as his assistant and bodyguard preserved him from death . The activities ...
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... cause of black slaves . Public opinion in England had , of course , been awoken by the devoted leaders of the abolitionist movement , and those men , such as Wilberforce and James Stephen , were in personal touch with the foreign ...
... cause of black slaves . Public opinion in England had , of course , been awoken by the devoted leaders of the abolitionist movement , and those men , such as Wilberforce and James Stephen , were in personal touch with the foreign ...
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List of Maps 79 | 7 |
Introduction | 9 |
GREEN SEA OF DARKNESS | 19 |
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