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Black Cargoes: A History of the Atlantic Slave Trade
Black Cargoes A History of the Atlantic Slave Trade Author:Daniel P. Mannix, Malcolm Cowley The importation of Negro Slave from Africa to the two Americas was a gigantic commercial operation that cost between thirty and fortyh million lives, helped to finance the English and French industrial revolutions, and gave rise to the American plantation system, maritime trade, and the Civil War; it inflicted wounds on Africa -- and on America ... more »-- which are still unstanched.
This volume, documented with contemporary letters, diaries, business records, and testimonies, is a story of greed, violence, daring, and incredible callousness; it is the first general history of the Atlantic trade to be written in 60 years.
Includes a section of 16 black and white prints on slick paper that illustrate the slave trade.