Basil Davidson states that by examining three important areas of Africa in the history of slavery 'against a general background of their time and circumstance'

After many years of research, award-winning historian Hugh Thomas portrays, in a balanced account, the complete history of the slave trade. Beginning with the f

Fifty million people between the 15th adn 19th centuries were forced into slavery by forced migration.

A thought-provoking reappraisal of the first European encounters with Africa As early as 1441, and well before other European countries encountered Africa, smal

We all know the story of the slave trade—the infamous Middle Passage, the horrifying conditions on slave ships, the millions that died on the journey, and the