American Slavers: Merchants, Mariners, and the Transatlantic Commerce in Captives, 1644-1865 Kelley Sean M.
American Slavers: Merchants, Mariners, and the Transatlantic Commerce in Captives, 1644-1865 Kelley Sean M. The first telling of the unknown story of America's two-hundred-year history as a…
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American Slavers: Merchants, Mariners, and the Transatlantic Commerce in Captives, 1644-1865 Kelley Sean M.
The first telling of the unknown story of America's two-hundred-year history as a slave-trading nationA total of 305,000 enslaved Africans arrived in the New World aboard American vessels over a span of two hundred years, yet this is the first book-length study covering the whole of the North American slave trade. Using exhaustive archival research, including many collections that have never been used before, historian Sean M. American merchants and mariners sailed to Africa and to the Caribbean to acquire and sell captives.
Kelley argues that slave trading needs to be seen as an integral part of the larger story of American slavery.Engaging deeply with both African and American history and addressing the trade over time, Kelley examines the experience of captivity, drawing on more than a hundred African narratives to offer a portrait of enslavement in the regions of