The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade

From: The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography | Date: April 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1440-1870. By HUGH THOMAS. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997. 908 pp. $37.50.

LORD THOMAS OF SWYNNERTON'S massive and readable narrative of the Atlantic slave trade leads to a simple conclusion. Everyone blames other people for the horrors of the slave trade, and everyone is right. Thomas shows that the slave trade touched, sometimes with searing effect, every Atlantic society. Thomas focuses on the traders and seeks to explain why the trade was "tolerated for so long" (p. 14). Mediterranean Muslim purchases of "Greek, Slav, German, ...

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