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Yale University Press
November 2010
On Sale: November 18, 2010
336 pages
ISBN: 0300124600
EAN: 9780300124606
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction History
Between 1501 and 1867, the transatlantic slave trade claimed
an estimated 12.5 million Africans and involved almost every
country with an Atlantic coastline. In this extraordinary
book, two leading historians have created the first
comprehensive, up-to-date atlas on this 350-year history of
kidnapping and coercion. It features nearly 200 maps,
especially created for the volume, that explore every detail
of the African slave traffic to the New World. The atlas is
based on an online database (www.slavevoyages.org) with
records on nearly 35,000 slaving voyages—roughly 80 percent
of all such voyages ever made. Using maps, David Eltis and
David Richardson show which nations participated in the
slave trade, where the ships involved were outfitted, where
the captives boarded ship, and where they were landed in the
Americas, as well as the experience of the transatlantic
voyage and the geographic dimensions of the eventual
abolition of the traffic. Accompanying the maps are
illustrations and contemporary literary selections,
including poems, letters, and diary entries, intended to
enhance readers’ understanding of the human story underlying
the trade from its inception to its end. This groundbreaking work provides the fullest possible
picture of the extent and inhumanity of one of the largest
forced migrations in history.
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