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Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade (The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History) by David Eltis, David Richardson; forew. by David Brion Davis; afterw. by David W. Blight; editorial board: James G. Basker [et al.]; maps provided by Mapping Specialists (Madison, Wis.) is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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A extraordinary work, decades in the making: the first atlas to illustrate the entire scope of the transatlantic slave trade Winner of the Association of American Publishers' 2010 R.R. Hawkins Award and PROSE Award "A monumental chronicle of this historical tragedy."—Dwight Garner, New York Times Between 1501 and 1867, the transatlantic slave trade claimed an estimated 12.5 million Africans and involved almost every country with an Atlantic coastline. In this extraordinary book, two leading historians have created the first comprehensive, up-to-date atlas on this 350-year history of kidnapping and coercion. It features nearly 200 maps, especially created for the volume, that explore every detail of the African slave traffic to the New World. The atlas is based on an online database (www.slavevoyages.org) with records on nearly 35,000 slaving voyages—roughly 80 percent of all such voyages ever made. Using maps, David Eltis and David Richardson show 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 geographi

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Author

David Eltis, David Richardson; forew. by David Brion Davis; afterw. by David W. Blight; editorial board: James G. Basker [et al.]; maps provided by Mapping Specialists (Madison, Wis.)

Publisher

Yale University Press

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780300124606

Category

history

Subjects

Social Science, Anthropology, Fiction

Rating

4.38 / 5 (27 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14