A 'darkly compelling history of the trade'. (MAIL ON SUNDAY)
The most impressive single volume history of the subject. Combining grand narrative sweep with vivid, telling detail, Thomas provides an elegant synthesis of contemporary accounts and modern scholarship (LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS)
The rise and fall of the business of slave trading - by a bestselling historian
The Atlantic slave trade was one of the largest and most elaborate maritime and commercial ventures. Between 1492 and about 1870, ten million or more black slaves were carried from Africa to one port or another of the Americas.
In this wide-ranging book, Hugh Thomas follows the development of this massive shift of human lives across the centuries until the slave trade's abolition in the late nineteenth century.
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Librería: Oblivion Books, Seattle, WA, Estados Unidos de America
paperback. Condición: Very Good. B/w Ilustrador. VG Softcover. Clean text - NO writing, NO highlighting. Very good. Oversized. Clean text -- NO writing, NO highlighting to text.ÂPLEASE NOTE: Domestic US media (standard) US orders ONLY. NO international orders. Nº de ref. del artículo: mon0000213159
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Librería: 369 Bookstore _[~ 369 Pyramid Inc ~]_, Dover, DE, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. B/w Ilustrador. After many years of research, award-winning historian Hugh Thomas portrays, in a balanced account, the complete history of the slave trade. Beginning with the first Portuguese slaving expeditions, he describes and analyzes the rise of one of the largest and most elaborate maritime and commercial ventures in all of history. Between 1492 and 1870, approximately eleven million black slaves were carried from Africa to the Americas to work on plantations, in mines, or as servants in houses. \"The Slave Trade\" is alive with villains and heroes and illuminated by eyewitness accounts. Hugh Thomas\'s achievement is not only to present a compelling history of the time but to answer as well such controversial questions as who the traders were, the extent of the profits, and why so many African rulers and peoples willingly collaborated. Thomas also movingly describes such accounts as are available from the slaves themselves. Nº de ref. del artículo: AMPLE0753820560
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Librería: GF Books, Inc., Hawthorne, CA, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: Very Good. B/w Ilustrador. Book is in Used-VeryGood condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain very limited notes and highlighting. 2.78. Nº de ref. del artículo: 0753820560-2-3
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Librería: Book Deals, Tucson, AZ, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: Fair. B/w Ilustrador. Acceptable/Fair condition. Book is worn, but the pages are complete, and the text is legible. Has wear to binding and pages, may be ex-library. 2.78. Nº de ref. del artículo: 353-0753820560-acp
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Librería: Book Deals, Tucson, AZ, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: Fine. B/w Ilustrador. Like New condition. Great condition, but not exactly fully crisp. The book may have been opened and read, but there are no defects to the book, jacket or pages. 2.78. Nº de ref. del artículo: 353-0753820560-lkn
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Librería: GoldenWavesOfBooks, Fayetteville, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Paperback. Condición: new. B/w Ilustrador. New. Fast Shipping and good customer service. Nº de ref. del artículo: Holz_New_0753820560
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Librería: Hay-on-Wye Booksellers, Hay-on-Wye, HEREF, Reino Unido
Condición: Good. B/w Ilustrador. Creases to spine. Marks to cover & scuffs/some peeling to edges. Dusty marks/foxing to textblock edges/end pages. Text very good. Nº de ref. del artículo: 112641-06182024LW
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Librería: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: new. B/w Ilustrador. Nº de ref. del artículo: FrontCover0753820560
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Librería: Wizard Books, Long Beach, CA, Estados Unidos de America
Paperback. Condición: new. B/w Ilustrador. New. Nº de ref. del artículo: Wizard0753820560
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Librería: GoldenDragon, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Paperback. Condición: new. B/w Ilustrador. Buy for Great customer experience. Nº de ref. del artículo: GoldenDragon0753820560
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