American Slavers: Merchants, Mariners, and the Transatlantic Commerce in Captives, 1644-1865

by Sean M. Kelley

Book Overview

The first telling of the unknown story of America's two-hundred-year history as a slave-trading nation

"A work of impressive breadth, deep research, and evenhanded analysis."--James Oakes, New York Review of Books

A total of 305,000 enslaved Africans arrived in the New World aboard American vessels over a span of two hundred years as American merchants and mariners sailed to Africa and to the Caribbean to acquire...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300263597
• ISBN13: 9780300263596
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 2.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.5" x 9.6"