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

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.

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

About the Author
Hugh Thomas has written numerous histories on the Spanish speaking world, including The Spanish Civil War, for which he won the Somerset Maugham Prize in 1962, Cuba or the Pursuit of Freedom, The Conquest of Mexico and The Slave Trade. His book The Unfinished History of the World won the first National Book Award for History in 1980. Hugh Thomas was chairman of the Centre for Policy Studies 1979-89 and was awarded a peerage as Lord Thomas of Swynnerton in 1981.

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 *



Book Information
ISBN 9780753820568
Author Hugh Thomas
Format Paperback
Page Count 928
Imprint Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Publisher Orion Publishing Co
Weight(grams) 1058g
Dimensions(mm) 235mm * 156mm * 62mm