Atlas of the transatlantic slave trade

Atlas of the transatlantic slave trade /

Between 1501 and 1867, the transatlantic slave trade claimed an estimated 12.5 million Africans and involved almost every country with an Atlantic coastline. This atlas deals with 350-year history of kidnapping and coercion. It features nearly 200 maps that explore details of the African slave traff...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Authors: Eltis, David, 1940- (Author), Richardson, David, 1946- (Author)
Other Authors: Davis, David Brion (writer of supplemental textual content.), Blight, David W. (writer of supplemental textual content.)
Format: Electronic Map
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2010
Series:Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history.
Subjects:
Slave trade > Africa > History > Maps.
Slave trade > History > Maps.
Slave trade > History.
Slave trade > Africa > History.
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Atlases.
Maps.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Nations transporting slaves from Africa, 1501-1867
  • Ports outfitting voyages in the transatlantic slave trade
  • The African coastal origins of slaves and the links between Africa and the Atlantic world
  • The experience of the Middle Passage
  • The destinations of slaves in the Americas and their links with the Atlantic world
  • Abolition and suppression of the transatlantic slave trade.

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