Slave Trade
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A01=Hugh Thomas
Atlantic slave trade
Author_Hugh Thomas
bestselling historian
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compelling history
development of the slave trade
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maritime ventures
rise and fall of slave trading
slave trade's abolition
slave trade’s abolition
Product details
- ISBN 9780753820568
- Weight: 1058g
- Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 05 Jan 2006
- Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The rise and fall of the business of slave trading - by a bestselling historian
The Atlantic slave trade was one of the largest and most elaborate maritime and commercial ventures. Between 1492 and about 1870, ten million or more black slaves were carried from Africa to one port or another of the Americas.
In this wide-ranging book, Hugh Thomas follows the development of this massive shift of human lives across the centuries until the slave trade's abolition in the late nineteenth century.
Hugh Thomas has written numerous histories on the Spanish speaking world, including The Spanish Civil War, for which he won the Somerset Maugham Prize in 1962, Cuba or the Pursuit of Freedom, The Conquest of Mexico and The Slave Trade. His book The Unfinished History of the World won the first National Book Award for History in 1980. Hugh Thomas was chairman of the Centre for Policy Studies 1979-89 and was awarded a peerage as Lord Thomas of Swynnerton in 1981.
