Synopses & Reviews
Based on journals and letters of slave traders, merchant seamen, and slaves, themselves, this is a passionate account of the Atlantic slave trade, from its origins in the fifteenth century to it's gradual dissolution in the early 1800s.
Synopsis
Based on the journals and letters of slave traders, merchant seamen, and sometimes the slaves themselves, this is a passionate yet harrowing account of life in the African trading ports, aboard the slave ships, at the New World markets, and on the West Indian plantations. With a wealth of well-chosen detail, it revives and recreates the Atlantic slave trade from its origins in the 15th century to its gradual dissolution in the early 1800s.