Contributions

  • Thornton, John Kelly, 1949- - Contributor

Publication

1998 - Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England

Language

English

Word Count

85,000 words, Guess

Page Count

340 pages

Identifiers

  • Open LibraryOL692521M
  • ISBN-100521622174
  • OCLC Control Number301948683
  • Library of Congress Control Number97039728
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  • LibraryThing374042

Classifications

  • DDC303.48/2604
  • LCCDT31 .T516 1998

Description

This book explores Africa's involvement in the Atlantic world from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries. It focuses especially on the causes and consequences of the slave trade, in Africa, in Europe, and in the New World. Prior to 1680, Africa's economic and military strength enabled African elites to determine how trade with Europe developed. Thornton examines the dynamics which made slaves so necessary to European colonizers. This edition contains a new chapter extending the story into the eighteenth century.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Africa and Africans in the making of the Atlantic world, 1400-1800Cambridge University Press1998-01-01

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