The Transatlantic Slave Trade: The History and Legacy of the System that Brought Slaves to the New World

De: Charles River Editors

Narrado por: David Otey

"The deck, that is the floor of their rooms, was so covered with the blood and mucus which had proceeded from them in consequence of the flux, that it resembled a slaughter-house. It is not in the power of the human imagination to picture a situation more dreadful or disgusting. Numbers of the slaves having fainted, they were carried upon deck where several of them died and the rest with great difficulty were restored. It had nearly proved fatal to me also." - Dr. Alexander Falconbridge, an 18th century British surgeon

The sail linked the continents of Africa and America, and thus it was also the sail that facilitated the greatest involuntary human migration of all time.

There can be no doubt that even though large numbers of indigenous Africans were liable, it was European ingenuity and greed that fundamentally drove the industrialization of the Transatlantic slave trade in response to massive new market demands created by their equally ruthless exploitation of the Americas.

In time, the Atlantic slave trade provided for the labor requirements of the emerging plantation economies of the New World. It was a specific, dedicated and industrial enterprise wherein huge profits were at stake. It existed without sentimentality, without history, and without tradition, and it was only outlawed once the advances of the industrial revolution had created alternative sources of energy for agricultural production.

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Very descriptive

Great book with plenty of information on the process of slavery and the new world

Good initial overview.

A very informative overview of a cruel and inhumane social activity. Another example of how one group of people can be exploited by others if they do not have the technology to fight back.

Informative, it was shorter than I'd hoped.

Informative, it was shorter than I'd hoped. I felt like I waisted a credit. but over all a good book.

Great summation

Having recently returned from the African coast, I was looking for something like this to help me sum up my thoughts and be educated on our history.

inaccuracies and untruths

very lazy scholarship. but to categorize European penetration into Africa as a mission to end slavery is horribly inaccurate considering the reality of continued genocide that occurred

A Wikipedia Article Is More Detailed

A very superficial take on a very complex topic. This “book” adds zero value to the discussion. You would get equal value by reading a Wikipedia article .