Transatlantic Slavery (Paperback)

Paperback. Over a four-hundred-year period at least twelve million Africans were taken into slavery in the largest forced migration in human history. This introductory book, which draws upon a wealth of material held by the International Slavery Museum, tells their story and examines the legacy of this bloody trade. Richly illustrated and with a foreword by Reverend Jesse Jackson, Transatlantic Slavery: An Introduction will be required reading for all those approaching the subject for the first time. The enslavement of Africans fuelled the economic development of the US and the world so in that sense, African people, whether in the US or Britain, are creditors, not debtors. From finance to cotton, shipping and trade, no economic development in the world could have evolved without the contributions as enslaved people of African people. - From the foreword by Reverend Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. Between 1500 and 1870, millions of Africans were transported across the Atlantic by European traders to work as slaves in the Americas. First published to accompany a permanent gallery in the Merseyside Maritime Museum, this reissue includes essays on women in slavery, the impact on West and Central Africa, and the African view of the slave trade. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…