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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...