The Slave Trade
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
The Slave Trade
By (Author) Hugh Thomas
Orion Publishing Co
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
1st April 2006
5th January 2006
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Social and cultural history
380.144
Physical Properties
Paperback
928
Width 156mm, Height 235mm, Spine 62mm
1058g
Description
The Atlantic slave trade was one of the largest and most elaborate maritime and commercial ventures. Between 1492 and about 1870, ten million or more black slaves were carried from Africa to one port or another of the Americas. In this wide-ranging book, Hugh Thomas follows the development of this massive shift of human lives across the centuries until the slave trade's abolition in the late nineteenth century.
Reviews
A 'darkly compelling history of the trade'. MAIL ON SUNDAY 'The most impressive single volume history of the subject. Combining grand narrative sweep with vivid, telling detail, Thomas provides an elegant synthesis of contemporary accounts and modern scholarship' LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS
Author Bio
Hugh Thomas has won the Somerset Maugham Prize and the National Book Award for History. He was chairman of the Centre for Policy Studies 1979-89 and received a peerage in 1981. He lives in London, W11.
