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CROSSINGS
AFRICA, THE AMERICAS AND THE ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE |
| By: |
James Walvin |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
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£20.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1780232047 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781780232041 |
| Publisher: |
REAKTION BOOKS |
| Pub. date: |
5 April, 2013 |
| Edition: |
New ed. |
| Pages: |
272 |
| Synopsis: |
"From the mid-15th century to the close of the 19th, it is estimated that more than 12 million people from Africa were forced onto slave ships and transported to the Western hemisphere; at least 11 million survived the journey to land in the Americas. Even after Britain banned the importation of African slaves in its colonies in 1807, and the U.S. followed suit in 1808, more than 3 million Africans made the terrible transit across the Atlantic. Slavery itself was not finally ended until Brazilian emancipation in 1888. Crossings explores the broad sweep of slavery across the Atlantic world, revealing the extraordinary efforts to end it as well as the remarkable degree to which slavery and the slave trade managed to survive, even to the present day. In the most authoritative history of the entire slave trade to date, eminent historian James Walvin returns the emphasis of the story to its origins in Africa. It was here that the trade originated, here that the terrible ordeal of slaves began, and here that the scars remain today. But he doesn't neglect the history of Portugese, French and British colonies as well as its development in the u.s.This book examines vital unanswered questions: how did a system which the Western world had come to regard with distaste manage to survive so long? And why were the British - so fundamental in developing and perfecting the slave trade - so prominent in its eradication? This groundbreaking study makes use of major new developments in research, rendering them available to a broad readership for the first time and offering a new understanding of one of the most important, and tragic, episodes in world history." |
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20 illus |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Reaktion Books |
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Non-returnable |
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