The Slave Trade. The Story of Transatlantic Slavery

Great Britain: Readers Union, 1972. Hardback. light reading marks to back D/J. The number of Africans torn from their homes during the course of the transatlantic slave trade will never be known, but conservcative estimates put the figure at between fourteen and twenty million, roughly the same number had died before, during the slave-hunts. The author begins by describing the discovery of Guinea from where most of the slaves were taken and then considers the impact of the European slavers on African traditional societies. After telling the terrible story of the Middle Passage across the Atlantic, Dr. Ransford re-creates the atmosphere of the slave plantations in the Caribbean, North America and Brazil. 292 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.) . 1st Readers Union Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardback.