A Short History of Transatlantic Slavery

by Kenneth O. Morgan

From 1501, when the first slaves arrived in Hispaniola, until the nineteenth century, some twelve million people were abducted from west Africa and shipped across thousands of miles of ocean - the infamous Middle Passage - to work in the colonies of the New World. Perhaps two million Africans died at sea. Why was slavery so widely condoned, during most of this period, by leading lawyers, religious leaders, politicians and philosophers? How was it...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1780763875
• ISBN13: 9781780763873
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.3"