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 ...

Between about 1500 and about 1870, European traders transported millions of Africans across the Atlantic to work as slaves in the Americas. The enslaved were shipped in ...

Artifacts of the slave trade between 1500 and 1870 highlight this book, which also features a collection of essays covering such topics as the African perspective, the rise of ...