The transatlantic slave trade played a major role in the development of the modern world. It both gave birth to and resulted from the shift from feudalism into

The region between the river Senegal and Sierra Leone saw the first trans-Atlantic slave trade in the sixteenth century. Drawing on many new sources, Toby Green

The best short history of the African slave trade in print, tracing the impact of the trade on both Africa and the West, showing the resilience of African socie

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 f

A monumental work, decades in the making: the first atlas to illustrate the entire scope of the transatlantic slave trade