Bibliograph

American slavers, merchants, mariners, and the transatlantic commerce in captives, 1644-1865, Sean M. Kelley

Type

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American slavers, merchants, mariners, and the transatlantic commerce in captives, 1644-1865, Sean M. Kelley

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

mapsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

American slavers

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1346944307

Responsibility statement

Sean M. Kelley

Sub title

merchants, mariners, and the transatlantic commerce in captives, 1644-1865

Summary

"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 collections that have never been used before, historian Sean M. Kelley argues that slave trading needs to be seen as integral to the larger story of American slavery."--Dust jacket

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