The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life In The Americas

Between 1492 and 1870, approximately eleven million African slaves were carried from Africa to the Americas to work on plantations, in mines, in businesses, or as servants in houses. The Slave Trade is alive with villains and heroes. So many African rulers and peoples willingly collaborated. As the sheer heft of the book might indicate, the story is complicated. One will see the moral ambiguity of how the business of transporting slaves was conducted.