The Slave Trade by Thomas
After many years of research, award-winning historian Hugh Thomas portrays, in a balanced account, the complete history of the slave trade. Beginning with the first Portuguese slaving expeditions, he describes and analyzes the rise of one of the largest and most elaborate maritime and commercial ventures in all of history. Between 1492 and 1870, approximately eleven million black slaves were carried from Africa to the Americas to work on plantations, in mines, or as servants in houses. The Slave Trade is alive with villains and heroes and illuminated by eyewitness accounts. Hugh Thomas's achievement is not only to present a compelling history of the time but to answer as well such controversial questions as who the traders were, the extent of the profits, and why so many African rulers and peoples willingly collaborated. Thomas also movingly describes such accounts as are available from the slaves themselves.
Hugh Thomas is the author of many histories, including The Golden Empire; Rivers of Gold, a New York Times Notable Book; The Spanish Civil War, for which he won the Somerset Maugham Award; and A History of the World, for which he won the Arts Council Prize for History. He has also received the Calvo Serer prize in Spain and the Boccacio and Nonino prizes in Italy and was made a Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France and a lord in England. Lord Thomas was educated at Queens' College, Cambridge, and the Sorbonne. He lives in London.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780684810638 |
| ISBN 10 | 0684810638 |
| Title | The Slave Trade |
| Author | Thomas |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster Ltd |
| Year published | 1997-09-29 |
| Number of pages | 908 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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