American Slavers: Merchants, Mariners, and the Transatlantic Commerce in Captives, 1644-1865
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The first telling of the unknown story of America’s two-hundred-year history as a slave-trading nation
“A work of impressive breadth, deep research, and evenhanded analysis.”—James Oakes, New York Review of Books
A total of 305,000 enslaved Africans arrived in the New World aboard American vessels over a span of two hundred years as American merchants and mariners sailed to Africa and to the Caribbean to acquire and sell captives. Using exhaustive archival research, including many collecti...
“A work of impressive breadth, deep research, and evenhanded analysis.”—James Oakes, New York Review of Books
A total of 305,000 enslaved Africans arrived in the New World aboard American vessels over a span of two hundred years as American merchants and mariners sailed to Africa and to the Caribbean to acquire and sell captives. Using exhaustive archival research, including many collecti...






















