A collection of 38 papers from the Ouidah Conference held in September 1994 in Ouidah, Benin as the launching conference for UNESCO's international Slave Route Project.
"For nearly one hundred and fifty years before abolition in 1807, Cape Coast Castle on the African 'Gold Coast' was, in the words of one of its British governors, the grand emporium of the British slave trade. From this handsome building perched on the shore of the South Atlanti…
"For nearly one hundred and fifty years before abolition in 1807, Cape Coast Castle on the African 'Gold Coast' was, in the words of one of its British governors, the grand emporium of the British slave trade. From this handsome building perched on the shore of the South Atlanti…
This collection of ten articles on the export slave trade from Africa serves as a vehicle for the editor's long and provocative introductory essay. The articles, originally published between I964 and I977, were selected to illustrate the editor's two major emphases: the relation…
"This nineteenth-century classic is the most detailed period document on privateering and the slave trade. The first half of the book concentrates on privateering, covering historically important eras such as the Seven Years' War, the American War of Independence, and the French…
