Crossings
James Walvin


Hardback | Sep 2013 | REAKTION BOOKS | 9781780231945 | 272pp | 234x156mm | GEN | AUD$49.99, NZD$59.99

 

From the mid-fifteenth century to the close of the nineteenth, it is estimated that more than 12 million people from Africa were forced onto slave ships and transported to the Americas; at least 11 million survived the journey. Even after Britain banned the importation of African slaves in its colonies in 1807, and the U.S. followed suit in 1808, m