num_pages: 380
description: Focusing especially on the causes and consequences of the slave trade, in Africa, in Europe, and in the New World, this book explores Africa's involvement in the Atlantic world from the 15th through the 18th centuries. Author John Thornton examines the dynamics that made slaves so necessary to European colonizers. This new edition contains an added chapter on 18th-century developments.
language: English
title: Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800
titlecomplete: Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800
genres: Historical, Grad School, The Americas, Academic, Nonfiction, School, World History, History, Research, Africa
ratings_count: 325
series: Studies in Comparative World History
publisher: Cambridge University Press