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The slave trade : the history of the Atlantic slave trade 1440–1870 / Hugh Thomas

by Hugh Thomas

A comprehensive history of the Atlantic slave trade, covering its origins in the fifteenth century through to its nineteenth-century suppression. It analyses the economic foundations of the trade and the eventual success of the international abolitionist movement.

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