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Atlas of the transatlantic slave trade, David Eltis and David Richardson ; foreword by David Brion Davis ; afterword by David W. Blight

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David Eltis and David Richardson ; foreword by David Brion Davis ; afterword by David W. Blight

The Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history

"Features nearly 200 maps, especially created for the volume, that explore every detail of the African slave traffic to the New World.... show[ing] which nations participated in the slave trade, where the ships involved were outfitted, where the captives boarded ship, and where they were landed in the Americas, as well as the experience of the transatlantic voyage and the geographic dimensions of the eventual abolition of the traffic."--Book flap

Nations transporting slaves from Africa, 1501-1867 -- Ports outfitting voyages in the transatlantic slave trade -- The African coastal origins of slaves and the links between Africa and the Atlantic world -- The experience of the middle passage --- The destinations of slaves in the Americas and their links with the Atlantic world -- Abolition and suppression of the transatlantic slave trade