The Atlantic Slave Trade
Subtitle: Effects on Economies, Societies and Peoples in Africa, the Americas, and Europe
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: December 1992
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9780822312437
Subjects: International trade; Slavery & emancipation; History - General History; History: American; Atlantic Ocean; General; African American Studies; African Studies; Caribbean Studies; Congresses; Slave-trade
First sentence: SINCE THE DEBATE in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries between the proslavery interests in Europe and the Americas-the slave traders and slaveholders-and the abolitionist movements, conflicting arguments have been presented on a host of issues relating to slavery and the slave trade.