The Slave Trade the Story Of Transatlantic Slavery

Newton Abbot: Readers Union,1972.. Dr Oliver Ransford begins by describing the discovery of Guinea from where most of the slaves were taken and then considers the impact of the European slavers on African traditional societies. After telling the terrible story of the Middle Passage across the Atlantic, Dr Ransford re-creates the atmosphere of the slave plantations in the Caribbean,… Read more about this item

Newton Abbot: Readers Union, 1972 Readers Union book club edition, tidy with light reading wear, 292pp + plates. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. Book Club.

Great Britain: Readers Union, 1972. Hardback. light reading marks to back D/J. The number of Africans torn from their homes during the course of the transatlantic slave trade will never be known, but conservcative estimates put the figure at between fourteen and twenty million, roughly the same number had died before, during the slave-hunts. The author begins by describing the… Read more about this item