Atlantic Slave Trade

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First published 1999. Scholarly, rounded history of the Atlantic slave trade, notably seen from an American perspective, with chapters on: 'Slavery in Western development'; 'American labour demand'; 'Africa at the time of the Atlantic slave trade'; 'European organisation of the slave trade'; 'African organisation of the slave trade'; 'The middle passage' [ie passage of slaves across Atlantic]; 'Social and cultural impact of the slave trade on America'; 'End of the slave trade'