The Slave Trade
history of the atlantic slave trade, 1440-1870
$74.15
- Paperback
928 pages
- Release Date
31 March 2006
Summary
Chains Across the Atlantic: A History of the Slave Trade
The Atlantic slave trade stands as one of history’s most extensive and intricate maritime and commercial enterprises. Spanning from 1492 to approximately 1870, this brutal system forcibly transported over ten million African people to various ports throughout the Americas. Hugh Thomas’s comprehensive work meticulously traces the evolution of this immense displacement of human lives over the centuries, culminating in the abolit…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780753820568 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0753820560 |
| Author: | Hugh Thomas |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 928 |
| Release Date: | 31 March 2006 |
| Weight: | 1.06kg |
| Dimensions: | 235mm x 156mm x 62mm |
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Critics Review
A ‘darkly compelling history of the trade’. - MAIL ON SUNDAY
The most impressive single volume history of the subject. Combining grand narrative sweep with vivid, telling detail, Thomas provides an elegant synthesis of contemporary accounts and modern scholarship - LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKSAbout The Author
Hugh Thomas
Hugh Thomas has won the Somerset Maugham Prize and the National Book Award for History. He was chairman of the Centre for Policy Studies 1979-89 and received a peerage in 1981. He lives in London.
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