The SLAVE TRADE: THE STORY OF THE ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE
Subtitle: 1440 - 1870
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: February 3, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 912
ISBN-13: 9780684835655
Subjects: African history; American history; Slave trade; Slavery; History; History - General History; History: American; History: World; Africa; The Americas; Slave-trade; Africa - General; Europe - General; North American; History / General; World - General
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.