The Trader, the Owner, the Slave: Parallel Lives in the Age of Slavery

by James Walvin

Book Overview

There has been nothing like Atlantic slavery. Its scope and the ways in which it has shaped the modern world are so far-reaching as to make it ungraspable. By examining the lives of three individuals caught up in the enterprise of human enslavement. James Walvin offers a new and an original interpretation of the barbaric world of slavery and of the historic end to the slave trade in April 1807.

John Newton (1725-1807), author of 'Amazing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0712667636
• ISBN13: 9780712667630
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.1" x 7.8"