The African Slave Trade

by Basil Davidson

Overview

Basil Davidson states that by examining three important areas of Africa in the history of slavery 'against a general background of their time and circumstance' he was taking 'a fresh look at the oversea slave trade, the steady year-by-year export of African labour to the West Indies and the Americas that marked the greatest and most fateful migration - forced migration - in the history of man.'

North America: Times/Random House

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780316174381
Publisher:	Little, Brown and Company
Publication date:	11/28/1988
Edition description:	ENL
Pages:	304
Sales rank:	526,464
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.69(d)

Editorial Reviews

The best general acount of the Atlantic slave trade. - Christopher Fyfe
Read this book, then read it again. [Davidson's] is the story of one of the most enormous crimes in all human history. THE NEW YORK TIMES
...the most effective popularizer of African history and archaeology outside Africa. - Roland Oliver in THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS

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