Africa and Africans in the making of the Atlantic world, 1400-1800
By: John Thornton.
Contributors: Thornton, John Kelly, 1949-
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
Subjects: Slavery; Africa -- Relations -- Europe; Europe -- Relations -- Africa; Africa -- Relations -- America; America -- Relations -- Africa; Europe -- History -- 1492-1648
Description: This book explores Africa's involvement in the Atlantic world from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries. It focuses especially on the causes and consequences of the slave trade, in Africa, in Europe, and in the New World. Prior to 1680, Africa's economic and military strength enabled African elites to determine how trade with Europe developed. Thornton examines the dynamics which made slaves so necessary to European colonizers.

This edition contains a new chapter extending the story into the eighteenth century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.