Transatlantic Slavery: Against Human Dignity - Couverture souple

 
9780853231981: Transatlantic Slavery: Against Human Dignity
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0853231982 ISBN 13 : 9780853231981
Editeur : Liverpool University Press, 2005

Synopsis

Between 1500 and 1870, millions of Africans were transported across the Atlantic by European traders to work as slaves in the Americas. They were shipped in conditions of great cruelty to lead lives of hard, unremitting labour, subject to degradation and violence. The products of their labour – primarily sugar, coffee and tobacco – were sent back to Europe and the profits derived from slavery helped fuel European economic development in the 18th and 19th centuries. The cost in lives and human suffering was enormous. First published to accompany a permanent gallery in the Merseyside Maritime Museum, this reissue of Transatlantic Slavery with new material documents this era through essays on women in slavery, the impact on West and Central Africa, and the African view of the slave trade. Richly illustrated, it reveals how the slave trade shaped the history of three continents―Africa, the Americas, and Europe―and how all of us continue to live with its consequences.

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À propos de l?auteur

Anthony Tibbles is Emeritus Keeper of Slavery History, National Museums Liverpool.

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Éditeur
Liverpool University Press
Date d'édition
2005
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0853231982
ISBN 13 
9780853231981
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
192
Éditeur
Tibbles Anthony
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