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Title: The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade: 1440-1870 by Hugh Thomas ISBN: 0684835657 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: February, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 Amazon Price(USD): $17.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.88235
Rating: 3
Summary: very detailed descriptions, but no analysis
Comment: I won't repeat the limitations cited by the other reviewers. In a seminar on the trans-Atantic slave trade, we tried to synthesize and generalize major patterns by place (Europe, Africa, Americas; cities; countries; regions), class (European and African elites; ship crews; slaves, African populations), and race (Europeans, Arabs, Africans) from the detailed descriptions in The Slave Trade. Although we occasionally did have some substantial discussions, the book is simply so badly written, repetitive, disorganized by years, places, personalities, and organizations; and the index so limited to be useless to find the many facts expressed in the book that by the end of the semester we were not only frustrated but also unable to synthesize the vast array of information into any significant number of tables, graphs, and maps. This book is a testimony to inadequacy of the historical descriptive style and of the publisher to let such a poorly written book be printed. Profoundly important topics, such as slavery, do not in and of themselves make worthwhile publications.
Rating: 4
Summary: The Slave trade by Hugo Thomas -A perspective
Comment: As a Nigerian currently in the U.S i am indeed deeply interested in slave trade,slavery and colonialism and it's effect on African people,s in Africa and the diaspora.Although it is a bulky book it is well researched and detailed giving an excellent perspective from a european historian's point of view.It starts from the first tentative contact between Africans and Europeans in the 15 th century to the gradual and then escalating involvement of various european countries and of course their few African collaborators in this heinous and repugnant crime to humanity,it also gives exacting detail about the gradual halt of the slave trade that is the trans atlantic because even today pockets of this still exist in Africa.In Conclusion there are no complete saints in this compelling narrative bur various degrees of villainy from severe to lesser forms.The victims were of course the slaves sold by a few of their fellow Africans the mordern Equivalent of which are the rulers of recent memory such as Idi Amin Dada,Bokassa ,Abacha.However there is hope with Obasanjo,Mandela ,Mbeki,Museveni.The heroes if i may say of this rupugnant,Humiliating practise include the Quakers,Oluadah Equiano,Frederick Douglas,La Rouche Foucald,Pitt,William Wilberforce,Clarkson,Harriet Tubman,Lord Palmerston,Sojourner Truth,montesquieu to name a few.This is a welcome addition to my library.
Rating: 5
Summary: A History of the Middle Passage
Comment: The most important thing to note about the title of this brilliant book is that it is about the slave TRADE, not slavery per se. For descendants of slaves, this distinction may be pretty meaningless, but to the eighteenth century abolitionists it was critical. As Thomas explains, opponents of slavery such as Lord Wilberforce premised their campaign on the theory that the trade in slaves - with its horrendous "middle passage" in which African men, women and children were piled into rotting hulks for weeks on end - was far more deserving of abolition of than the practice of slavery itself. As Thomas points out, the logic of this position now seems extremely dubious, for even after the British and other European navies had suppressed the cross-Atlantic trade, many countries retained their slave plantations, most notably the Southern United States, Brazil and Cuba.
When one tallies up those who traded in slaves, one finds a scandalously large and non-exclusive club - virtually all the nations of Europe, and all the colonial and "liberated" powers of North America, starting with Henry the Navigator of Portugal and ending with the newly formed states of c. 19th Latin America. In 900 pages, Thomas chronicles a trade that covered four continents and four centuries. This is THE work on the slave trade.
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Title: The Diligent: A Voyage Through the Worlds of the Slave Trade by Robert W. Harms ISBN: 0465028713 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: 18 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $30.00 Amazon Price(USD): $21.00 |
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Title: Conquest: Montezuma, Cortes, and the Fall of Old Mexico by Hugh Thomas ISBN: 0671511041 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: April, 1995 List Price(USD): $20.00 Amazon Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War by Thomas J. Dilorenzo ISBN: 0761536418 Publisher: Prima Publishing Pub. Date: 26 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 Amazon Price(USD): $17.47 |
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Title: Transformations in Slavery : A History of Slavery in Africa by Paul E. Lovejoy ISBN: 0521784301 Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr (Pap Txt) Pub. Date: July, 2000 List Price(USD): $26.00 Amazon Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America by Ira Berlin ISBN: 0674002113 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: 04 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.95 Amazon Price(USD): $11.87 |
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