The slave trade in America
Subtitle: cruel commerce
By: Richard Worth ; foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr
Series: Slavery in American history
Publisher: Enslow Publishers
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Berkeley Heights, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780766021518
Subjects: Slave trade; Sklavenhandel; Juvenile literature; History
Description: Describes the horrors suffered by the Africans who were kidnapped from their homeland and brought to America to work as slaves.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 124) and index.
Table of contents: title: A slave's story; title: Origins of the slave trade; title: American slave trade in the 17th century; title: American slave trade in the 18th century; title: The slave trade and the law; title: Slave trade within the South; title: Major centers of internal slave trade; title: End of the slave trade.