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 published to accompany a permanent gallery in the Merseyside
Maritime Museum, this reissue of Transatlantic Slavery with new
material documents this era through essays on women in slavery, the
impact on West and Central Africa, and the African view of the
slave trade. Richly illustrated, it reveals how the slave trade
shaped the history of three continents-Africa, the Americas, and
Europe-and how all of us continue to live with its consequences.
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