The Slave Trade
Published on 12. November 2015
928 pages
978-1-4746-0336-2 (ISBN)
Description
The Atlantic slave trade was one of the largest and most elaborate maritime and commercial ventures. Between 1492 and about 1870, ten million or more black slaves were carried from Africa to one port or another of the Americas.
In this wide-ranging book, Hugh Thomas follows the development of this massive shift of human lives across the centuries until the slave trade's abolition in the late nineteenth century.
In this wide-ranging book, Hugh Thomas follows the development of this massive shift of human lives across the centuries until the slave trade's abolition in the late nineteenth century.
Reviews / Votes
A 'darkly compelling history of the trade'.The most impressive single volume history of the subject. Combining grand narrative sweep with vivid, telling detail, Thomas provides an elegant synthesis of contemporary accounts and modern scholarship
Vast in scope, impressive in intellectual grasp and vividly realized in detail - Daily Telegraph
The Slave Trade is inspired not only by new research but also by originality of analysis, interpretations and insight - Times Literary Supplement
Hugh Thomas's massive and magisterial survey of this trade is a remarkable synthesis of recent scholarship, with many virtues - The Times
Thomas's descriptive virtuosity and narrative sweep are impressive - New Statesman
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Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Orion Publishing Co
Edition type
Digital original
Illustrations
75
File size
10,85 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-4746-0336-2 (9781474603362)
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Hugh Thomas has written numerous histories on the Spanish speaking world, including The Spanish Civil War, for which he won the Somerset Maugham Prize in 1962, Cuba: The Pursuit of Freedom, The Conquest of Mexico and The Slave Trade. His book The Unfinished History of the World won the first National Book Award for History in 1980. Hugh Thomas was chairman of the Centre for Policy Studies 1979-89 and was awarded a peerage as Lord Thomas of Swynnerton in 1981.
