Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Author: David Eltis
Publisher:
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2015-02-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780300212549

A monumental work, decades in the making: the first atlas to illustrate the entire scope of the transatlantic slave trade

Atlas of Slavery

Atlas of Slavery
Author: James Walvin
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2014-06-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317874161

Slavery transformed Africa, Europe and the Americas and hugely-enhanced the well-being of the West but the subject of slavery can be hard to understand because of its huge geographic and chronological span. This book uses a unique atlas format to present the story of slavery, explaining its historical importance and making this complex story and its geographical setting easy to understand.

Extending the Frontiers

Extending the Frontiers
Author: David Eltis
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2008-10-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 0300151748

The essays in this book provide statistical analysis of the transatlantic slave trade, focusing especially on Brazil and Portugal from the 17th through the 19th century. The book contains research on slave ship voyages, origins, destinations numbers of slaves per port country, year, and period.

The Slave Trade

The Slave Trade
Author: Hugh Thomas
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 916
Release: 2013-04-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1476737452

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.

The Routledge Atlas of African American History

The Routledge Atlas of African American History
Author: Jonathan Halperin Earle
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2000
Genre: African Americans
ISBN: 9780415921367

From the 16th century African slave trade to the 20th century struggle for equality, The Routledge Atlas of African American History examines the geographical and historical context of the African American Experience. Focusing on issues and events that resonate to this day, topics include: slave revolts, black patriots, slave communities, the Civil War, African Americans in the armed services, the spread of Jim Crow, the Negro Baseball League, the Civil Rights Movement, the Voting Rights Act, the Harlem Renaissance, the expansion of the black middle class, and much more. Also inlcludes 50 color maps.

Principles and Agents

Principles and Agents
Author: David Richardson
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2022-01-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 0300262906

A new history of the abolition of the British slave trade “Easily the most scholarly, clear and persuasive analysis yet published of the rise to dominance of the British in the Atlantic slave trade—as well as the implementation of abolition when that dominance was its peak.”—David Eltis, co-author of Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade Parliament’s decision in 1807 to outlaw British slaving was a key moment in modern world history. In this magisterial work, historian David Richardson challenges claims that this event was largely due to the actions of particular individuals and emphasizes instead that abolition of the British slave trade relied on the power of ordinary people to change the world. British slaving and opposition to it grew in parallel through the 1760s and then increasingly came into conflict both in the public imagination and in political discourse. Looking at the ideological tensions between Britons’ sense of themselves as free people and their willingness to enslave Africans abroad, Richardson shows that from the 1770s those simmering tensions became politicized even as British slaving activities reached unprecedented levels, mobilizing public opinion to coerce Parliament to confront and begin to resolve the issue between 1788 and 1807.

Liverpool and the Slave Trade

Liverpool and the Slave Trade
Author: Anthony Tibbles
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781786941534

"Liverpool and the Slave Trade is the first comprehensive account of the city's role in the slave trade. Drawing on recent research, contemporary documents and illustrations, it provides a detailed account of how the trade operated and was eventually brought to an end"--

The Last Slave Ships

The Last Slave Ships
Author: John Harris
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2020-11-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 0300256027

A stunning behind-the-curtain look into the last years of the illegal transatlantic slave trade in the United States Long after the transatlantic slave trade was officially outlawed in the early nineteenth century by every major slave trading nation, merchants based in the United States were still sending hundreds of illegal slave ships from American ports to the African coast. The key instigators were slave traders who moved to New York City after the shuttering of the massive illegal slave trade to Brazil in 1850. These traffickers were determined to make Lower Manhattan a key hub in the illegal slave trade to Cuba. In conjunction with allies in Africa and Cuba, they ensnared around two hundred thousand African men, women, and children during the 1850s and 1860s. John Harris explores how the U.S. government went from ignoring, and even abetting, this illegal trade to helping to shut it down completely in 1867.

Final Passages

Final Passages
Author: Gregory E. O'Malley
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 411
Release: 2014
Genre: History
ISBN: 1469615347

Final Passages: The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America, 1619-1807