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The Slave Trade

The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1440-1870

By: Hugh Thomas

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Paperback | 1 April 2006 | Edition Number 1

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The rise and fall of the business of slave trading - by a bestselling historianThe 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.

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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

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African History

What heart could be so hard?	p. 21
Humanity is divided into two	p. 25
The slaves who find the gold are all black	p. 33
The Portuguese served for setting dogs to spring the game	p. 49
I herded them as if they had been cattle	p. 68
The best and strongest slaves available	p. 88
For the love of God, give us a pair of slave women	p. 114
The white men arrived in ships with wings	p. 129
A good correspondence with the blacks	p. 153
The black slave is the basis of the hacienda	p. 182
Lawful to set to sea	p. 196
He who knows how to supply the slaves will share this wealth	p. 210
No nation has plunged so deeply into this guilt as Great Britain	p. 235
By the grace of God	p. 263
A filthy voyage	p. 289
Great pleasure from our wine	p. 313
Slave harbours I	p. 330
Slave harbours II	p. 351
A great strait for slaves	p. 368
The blackest sort with short curled hair	p. 386
If you want to learn how to pray, go to sea	p. 407
God knows what we shall do with those that remain	p. 429
Above all a good soul	p. 447
The loudest yelps for liberty	p. 465
The gauntlet had been thrown down	p. 484
Men in Africa of as fine feeling as ourselves	p. 511
Why should we see Great Britain getting all the slave trade?	p. 536
I see ... we have not yet begun the golden age	p. 558
The slaver is more criminal than the assassin	p. 590
Only the poor speak ill of the slave trade	p. 628
Active exertions	p. 650
Slave harbours of the nineteenth century	p. 673
Sharks are the invariable outriders of all slave ships	p. 711
Can we resist the torrent? I think not	p. 727
They all eagerly desire it, protect it and almost sanctify it	p. 747
Cuba, the forward sentinel	p. 769
The slave trade : a reflection
Some who lived to tell the tale
The trial of Pedro Jose de Zulueta in London for trading in slaves
Estimated statistics
Selected prices of slaves 1440-1870
The voyage of the Enterprize
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The Slave Trade

The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1440-1870

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