Atlas of the transatlantic slave trade / David Eltis, David Richardson, and Philip Misevic ; foreword to the second edition by Toyin Falola ; foreword by David Brion Davis ; afterword by David W. Blight.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eltis, David, 1940- author.

Richardson, David, 1946- author.

Misevich, Philip, author.

Contributor:

Falola, Toyin, writer of foreword.

Davis, David Brion, writer of foreword.

Blight, David W., writer of afterword.

Eltis, David, 1940-

Series:

Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history

The Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Transatlantic slave trade--Maps.

Transatlantic slave trade.

Transatlantic slave trade--History.

Transatlantic slave trade--History--Maps.

Genre:

Maps.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxx, 357 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps.

Edition:

Second edition.

Other Title:

Transatlantic slave trade

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, 2026.

Biography/History:

David Eltis is Robert W. Woodruff Professor Emeritus of History, Emory University. His prizewinning books include The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas. David Richardson (1946-2023) was the director of the Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation and professor of economic history, University of Hull, England. His final book was Principles and Agents: The British Slave Trade and Its Abolition. Philip Misevich is associate professor of history at St. John's University. He is the author of Abolition and the Transformation of Atlantic Commerce in Southern Sierra Leone, 1790s to 1860s.

Summary:

"A monumental cartographic history of the African slave trade, updated and expanded in a new edition. In the first edition of Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade , two leading historians explored details of the 350-year history of African slave traffic to the New World. They showed, with nearly 200 original maps, where the captives came from, how long the journeys lasted, how many died on the voyages, and what the ports and destinations were. They also presented details about the trade itself, including the economics. In this groundbreaking revised edition, 25 new maps locate the major language groups involved in the traffic and show the movement of Africans from the interior of the continent to the Americas, as well as from one part of the Americas to another. Accompanying the maps, as in the first edition, are revealing illustrations and contemporary literary selections, including poems, letters, and diary entries. With up-to-date information drawn from the database Slave Voyages (www.slavevoyages.org), with its records of more than 36,000 voyages, the atlas provides the fullest possible picture of the extent and inhumanity of one of the largest forced migrations in history."-- Title details screen.

Contents:

Part I. Nations Transporting Slaves from Africa, 1501-1867

Part II. Ports Outfitting Voyages in the Transatlantic Slave Trade

Part III. The African Coastal Origins of Slaves and the Links between Africa and the Atlantic World

Part IV. The Experience of the Middle Passage

Part V. The Destinations of Slaves in the Americas and Their Links with the Atlantic World

Part VI. Abolition and Suppression of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

Part VII. The Slave Trade Distributed across Modern Country Boundaries in Africa and the Americas

Part VIII. Some Major African Language Groups Pulled into the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

Notes:

Previous edition: published as by David Eltis and David Richardson. 2010.

Includes bibliographical references.

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Description based on print version record.

Related Work:

Eltis, David, 1940- Atlas of the transatlantic slave trade. First edition.

ISBN:

0-300-28941-3

9780300289411