The transatlantic slave trade played a major role in the development of the modern world. It both gave birth to and resulted from the shift from feudalism into

The best short history of the African slave trade in print, tracing the impact of the trade on both Africa and the West, showing the resilience of African socie

The history of Ghana attracts popular interest out of proportion to its small size and marginal importance to the global economy. Ghana is the land of Kwame Nkr

From 1501, when the first slaves arrived in Hispaniola, until the nineteenth century, some twelve million people were abducted from west Africa and shipped acro

For review see: J.R. McNeill, in HAHR, 74, 1 (February 1994); p. 136-137.