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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... soon maintained a governor , a factor , and a garrison of fifty troops . A local prince , Caramança ( King Ansa ) —it is unclear if he was a king of Komenda or a nobleman - had been reluctant to allow this establish- ment , as might ...
... soon maintained a governor , a factor , and a garrison of fifty troops . A local prince , Caramança ( King Ansa ) —it is unclear if he was a king of Komenda or a nobleman - had been reluctant to allow this establish- ment , as might ...
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... soon sending about sixteen thousand slaves a year to the Americas , nearly half the African total then . The Portuguese specially prized slaves from Whydah who , they thought , had a magic nose for knowing where gold deposits were . In ...
... soon sending about sixteen thousand slaves a year to the Americas , nearly half the African total then . The Portuguese specially prized slaves from Whydah who , they thought , had a magic nose for knowing where gold deposits were . In ...
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... soon came to seem pro - British or antipatriotic to oppose slavery in France . Napoleon , having in 1800 forced Spain to return Louisiana to him , sent an army to Saint - Domingue to reconquer it , and it seems as if , for a time , he ...
... soon came to seem pro - British or antipatriotic to oppose slavery in France . Napoleon , having in 1800 forced Spain to return Louisiana to him , sent an army to Saint - Domingue to reconquer it , and it seems as if , for a time , he ...
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List of Maps 79 | 7 |
Introduction | 9 |
GREEN SEA OF DARKNESS | 19 |
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