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  • Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

    by David Eltis, David Richardson, Philip Misevich ...
    Series series The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
    A monumental cartographic history of the African slave trade, updated and expanded in a new editionIn the first edition of Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, two leading historians explored details of the 350-year history of African slave traffic to the New World. They showed, with nearly 200 original maps, where the captives came from, how long the journeys lasted, how many died on the ... Read more

    $73.99 CAD

  • The Rise and Demise of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Atlantic World

    by Phil Phil Misevich, Dr Philip Morgan, Rik van Welie, Robert Goddard, Seymour Drescher, Stanley L. Engerman, Kristin Mann, Daniel B. Domingues da Silva, David Richardson0, Jelmer Vos1, Leonardo Marques2, Olatunji Ojo3 ...
    Drawing on new quantitative and qualitative evidence, this study reexamines the rise, transformation, and slow demise of slavery and the slave trade in the Atlantic world. The twelve essays here reveal the legacies and consequences of abolition and chronicle the first formative global human rights movement. They also cast new light on the origins and development of the African diaspora created by ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

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  • Born in Blackness

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  • A History of Newfoundland in the North Atlantic to 1818

    by Shannon Ryan ...
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  • A Concise History of the Caribbean

    by B. W. Higman ...
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    A Concise History of the Caribbean presents a general history of the Caribbean islands from the beginning of human settlement about seven thousand years ago to the present. It narrates processes of early human migration, the disastrous consequences of European colonization, the development of slavery and the slave trade, the extraordinary profits earned by the plantation economy, the great ... Read more

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  • Blood on the River

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  • Mosquito Empires

    Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620–1914

    by J. R. McNeill ...
    Series series New Approaches to the Americas
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  • Western Africa and Cabo Verde, 1790S-1830S

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  • A Brief History of the Caribbean

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