The Transatlantic Slave Trade: A History

by James A. Rawley and Stephen D. Behrendt

Book Overview

The transatlantic slave trade played a major role in the development of the modern world. It both gave birth to and resulted from the shift from feudalism into the European Commercial Revolution. James A. Rawley fills a scholarly gap in the historical discussion of the slave trade from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century by providing one volume covering the economics, demography, epidemiology, and politics of the trade. This revised edition of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803239610
• ISBN13: 9780803239616
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 9.2"