The Slave Trade
Subtitle: History of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1440-1870
Publisher: Macmillan Publishers Limited
Published: 1998
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 928
ISBN-13: 9780333731475
First sentence: "VERY EARLY in the morning, because of the heat," a few Portuguese seamen on the decks of half a dozen hundred-ton caravels, the new sailing ships, were preparing, on August 8, 1444, to land their African cargo near Lagos, on the southwest point of the Algarve, in Portugal.