The Atlantic Slave Trade

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The Atlantic Slave Trade. By Herbert S. Klein. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xxi + 234 pp. Appendix, bibliography, figures, maps, index, and tables. $49.95. ISBN 0521465885.

This is a book aimed, as the preface tells us, at the "general reader" (i). Its author, however, is a leading scholar in the field, having produced several books of his own on the slave trade and New World slavery, as well as collaborating in the construction of the very recent and important Du Bois Institute CD-ROM statistical data base of European and American slave trading voyages. The present ...

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