Between 1501 and 1867, the transatlantic slave trade claimed an estimated 12.5 million Africans and involved almost every country with an Atlantic coastline. In this extraordinary book, two leading historians have created the first comprehensive, up-to-date atlas on this 350-year history of kidnapping and coercion. It features nearly 200 maps, especially created for the volume, that explore every detail of the African slave traffic to the New World.
Read more →I'm reading this now as part of my New Year's resolution to read all of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novels in 2012. (Then I'll move onto the short stories.)
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