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Transatlantic Slavery: An Introduction

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Transatlantic Slavery: An Introduction - Fleming, David, and Benjamin, Richard
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Between 1500 and 1870, millions of Africans were transported across the Atlantic by European traders to work as slaves in the Americas. They were shipped in conditions of great cruelty to lead lives of hard, unremitting labour, subject to degradation and violence. The products of their labour - primarily sugar, coffee and tobacco - were sent back to Europe and the profits derived from slavery helped fuel European economic development in the 18th and 19th centuries. The cost in lives and human suffering was enormous. First ...

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Transatlantic Slavery: An Introduction 2010, Liverpool University Press, Liverpool

ISBN-13: 9781846316395

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