In the first major history of the Atlantic slave trade, not just slavery in America, Hugh Thomas penetrates myths that have obscured this topic for so long, revealing how slavery was, for centuries, the biggest business of all--an international growth industry that, for its day,…
Chronicles the history of the African slave trade by Portugal, Brazil, Great Britain, France, Spain, the Netherlands, and the United States, from the first Portuguese slaving expeditions, through the abolitionist movements, to the final days of the trade in Cuba and Brazil. Incl…
"No great historical subject is so laden with modern controversy or so obscured by myth and legend as the slave trade. Who were tbe slavers? How profitable was the business? Why did many African rulers and peoples collaborate?" "The strength of Hugh Thomas's book is that it begi…
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, he describes and analyzes the rise of one of the largest and most elaborate marit…
En plus de 150 cartes et infographies, voici la longue histoire des pratiques esclavagistes, de l'Antiquité à nos jours. Une analyse mondiale de la traite des esclaves, du XVe au XIXe siècle, une approche globale et originale des sociétés esclavagistes. L'expansion de la traite …
