slave trade

The Atlantic slave trade was the largest forced migration in history (12,500,000 people) and the toll in lives damaged or destroyed is incalcuable. Of this amount only an estimted 389,000 people came to the American South, and about 79,000 of those after 1800. Most of the slaves' stories are lost to history, making the few that can be reconstructed, critical to an understanding of slavery in the South. Subjects in this book were all natives of West Africa who lived in the American South between 1760 and 1860. They include Elizabeth Cleveland Hardcastle, the mixed-race daughter of an African slave-trading family who invested in South Carolina rice plantations and slaves; Robert Johnson, kidnapped as a child and sold into slavery in Georgia; Dimmock Charlton who bought his freedom after being illegally enslaved in Savahhah; and a group of unidentified Africans who were picked up by a British ship in the Caribbean, and were eventually returned to their homeland. All of these people led exceptional lives, of which slavery was just one part, and show how the slave trade operated and who was involved.

Traces the path of the slave trade from the ports of West Africa to cotton and sugar plantations in the Americas to London, home to famous companies that profited from slave labor.

Traces the story of globalization through travel, trade, colonization, and migration from the fifteenth century to the present, documenting the historical impact of such influences as potatoes, the rubber plant, and malaria.

Explore the exciting true story of the captaincy, wreck, and discovery of the Whydah ???the only pirate ship ever found???and the incredible mysteries it revealed.

"Presents an investigation into the wreck of the Henrietta Marie and how it reflects the tragic history of slavery in England, West Africa, the Caribbean and America."--OCLC.

Kidnapped by the crew of an Africa-bound ship, a thirteen-year-old boy discovers to his horror that he is on a slaver and his job is to play music for the exercise periods of the human cargo.

Presents an historical fiction written in first-person format that follows Emma, the slave of Pierce Butler, through a series of events in her life as her master hosts the largest slave auction in American history in Savannah, Georgia in 1859 in order to pay off his mounting gambling debts.

Reveals how the voyages of Columbus reintroduced plants and animals that had been separated millions of years earlier, documenting how the ensuing exchange of flora and fauna between Eurasia and the Americas fostered a European rise.

Having escaped from Fort Davis, Texas, seventeen-year-old Danny Blackgoat, a Navajo, must still face many obstacles in order to rescue his family from Fort Sumner, New Mexico, and find freedom after the Long Walk of 1864.

"Since the time of Columbus, Indian slavery was illegal in much of the American continent. Yet, as Andr?s Res?ndez illuminates in ... The Other Slavery, it was practiced for centuries as an open secret. There was no abolitionist movement to protect the tens of thousands of natives who were kidnapped and enslaved by the conquistadors, then forced to descend into ... eighteenth-century silver mines or, later, made to serve as domestics for Mormon settlers and rich Anglos. Res?ndez builds the incisive case that it was mass slavery, more than epidemics, that decimated Indian populations across North America"--Amazon.com.