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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... seized some blacks from Portuguese ships ; he also traded with two monarchs , and set off for the West Indies , this time with four hundred African captives . He sailed to the Venezuelan coast , where he eventually sold his slaves ...
... seized some blacks from Portuguese ships ; he also traded with two monarchs , and set off for the West Indies , this time with four hundred African captives . He sailed to the Venezuelan coast , where he eventually sold his slaves ...
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... seized the company's fort at Sekondi , on the Gold Coast , and beheaded the chief agent . The same year , an agent of the RAC , in Anamabo , was held prisoner for eighteen days , until he bought his freedom with " good words and a great ...
... seized the company's fort at Sekondi , on the Gold Coast , and beheaded the chief agent . The same year , an agent of the RAC , in Anamabo , was held prisoner for eighteen days , until he bought his freedom with " good words and a great ...
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... seized by Haitians , and the slaves were set free in that liberated but un- fortunate country . The War of 1812 between Britain and the United States also made it legitimate for the British to seize ships with North American flags . But ...
... seized by Haitians , and the slaves were set free in that liberated but un- fortunate country . The War of 1812 between Britain and the United States also made it legitimate for the British to seize ships with North American flags . But ...
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List of Maps 79 | 7 |
Introduction | 9 |
GREEN SEA OF DARKNESS | 19 |
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