A monumental work, decades in the making: the first atlas to illustrate the entire scope of the transatlantic slave trade

Slavery transformed Africa, Europe and the Americas and hugely-enhanced the well-being of the West but the subject of slavery can be hard to understand because

There is a broad consensus among scholars that the idea of human rights was a product of the Enlightenment but that a self-conscious and broad-based human right

An investigation of US participation in the transatlantic slave trade to the Americas, from the American Revolution to the Civil War While much of modern schola

The essays in this book provide statistical analysis of the transatlantic slave trade, focusing especially on Brazil and Portugal from the 17th through the 19th