The Atlantic slave trade was one of the largest and most elaborate maritime and commercial ventures. Between 1492 and about 1870, ten million or more black slaves were carried from Africa to one port or another of the Americas.
After many years of research, award-winning historian Hugh Thomas portrays, in a balanced account, the complete history of the slave trade. Illuminated by eye-witness accounts and depictions of both the heroes and villains of slavery, Hugh Thomas produces a wide ranging an definitive look at the history of slavery.