"This survey is a synthesis of the economic, social, cultural, and political history of the Atlantic slave trade, providing the general reader with a basic understanding of the current state of scholarly knowledge of forced African migration and compares this knowledge to popular beliefs. The...

"A sweeping new history that reveals how British, African, and American merchants developed the transatlantic slave trade This is a landmark study given its clear status as easily the best researched and most comprehensive book on the British slave trade to date. -David Eltis, coauthor of Atlas...