The Atlantic Slave Trade.(Book Review) From: The Modern Language Review | Date: October 1, 2003| Author: Burnard, Trevor | COPYRIGHT 2003 Modern Humanities Research Association. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

The Atlantic Slave Trade. By HERBERT S. KLEIN. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1999. xxi+234 pp. 13.95 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-521-46588-5.

The Atlantic slave trade was one of the first truly global trades. Involvement in it offered most of the participants high profits but only if they were willing to take great risks and were willing to master a bewildering variety of skills. It was an extremely complex and demanding trade, made all the more difficult because the ...

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