Dimensions
138 x 215 x 24mm
This is the terrible history of the Atlantic slave trade, from its origins in the fifteenth century to its gradual dissolution in the early 1800s. The eminent historian and travel writer, James Pope-Hennessy, explores the Atlantic slave trade in all its horrors from 1441 - 1807.
Based on the journals and letters of slave traders, merchant seamen and sometimes of the slaves themselves, it presents a harrowing account of life in the African trading ports, on board the slave ships, at the New World slave markets and on the West Indian plantations. Written with passion and precision, and with a wealth of well-chosen detail, it revives and recreates a shameful episode in modern history, the consequences of which are with us still.
