A extraordinary work, decades in the making: the first atlas to illustrate the entire scope of the transatlantic slave trade
Winner of the Association of American Publishers' 2010 R.R. Hawkins Award and PROSE Award
"A monumental chronicle of this historical tragedy."-Dwight Garner, New York Times
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.
A extraordinary work, decades in the making: the first atlas to illustrate the entire scope of the transatlantic slave trade
Winner of the Association of American Publishers' 2010 R.R. Hawkins Award and PROSE Award
"A monumental chronicle of this historical tragedy."-Dwight Garner, New York Times
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.
David Eltis is Emeritus Robert W. Woodruff Professor at Emory University. David Richardson is the former director of the Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation, and professor of economic history, University of Hull, England. Together, the authors coedited Extending the Frontiers: Essays on the New Transatlantic Slave Trade Database.
"A monumental chronicle of this historical tragedy, one that
records some 35,000 individual slaving voyages, roughly 80 percent
of those made. . . . [This book] is a human document as well as a
rigorous accounting. It is filled with moving poems, photographs,
letters and diary entries."—Dwight Garner, New York Times
"A monumental chronicle of this historical tragedy, one that
records some 35,000 individual slaving voyages, roughly 80 percent
of those made. The authors remind us that only 4 percent of the
captives disembarked in what became the United States, while 95
percent arrived in the Caribbean and South America. Atlas of the
Transatlantic Slave Trade is a human document as well as a rigorous
accounting. It is filled with moving poems, photographs, letters
and diary entries."—Dwight Garner, New York Times
"A remarkable resource. . . . The charts raise as many questions as
they answer; this is entirely the point."—James Delbourgo, Times
Higher Education
". . . a ground-breaking project: the Atlas will be indispensable
for all those interested in the slave trade."—Jane Webster, Times
Literary Supplement
". . . a beautifully produced volume . . . The whole is topped and
tailed by two excellent essays: a masterly introduction by David
Brion Davis and a rousing afterword by David Blight. The end result
of all this international, scholarly effort is a remarkable book
which is not only a pleasure to have on one's shelves, but a model
of scholarly and publishing activity. . . . Here, and in their
varied (and complex) work as individual scholars, Eltis and
Richardson have revealed themselves to be among the most
imaginative, influential and distinguished historians of their
generation."—James Walvin, International Journal of Maritime
History
"This groundbreaking work provides the fullest possible picture of
the extent and inhumanity of one of the largest forced migrations
in History."—The Global Journal
"Beautifully produced, with period images and contemporary
quotations, this is in a work of commemoration, but the best
memorial, the authors clearly feel, is the historic truth."—Michael
Kerrigan, The Scotsman
"We are indebted to Eltis and Richardson for opening up new
evidence and pointing towards future projects. The importance of
this book transcends the story of the slave trade itself."—James
Walvin, Family & Community History Vol 14.2
Winner of the 2010 R.R. Hawkins Award, given by the Association of
American Publishers
Winner of the PROSE Award for Excellence in Single Volume
Reference/Humanities and Social Sciences category, as given by the
Association of American Publishers
Received Honorable Mention for the 2011 Dartmouth Medal for
outstanding reference
Honorable Mention in the General Non-Fiction category of the 2010
Los Angeles Book Festival
Winner of the 2011 Anisfield-Wolf Awards in the non-fiction
category
"A brilliant rendition of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
Database. This atlas is essential to the study of chattel
slavery. No student of slavery should be without it."—Ira
Berlin, University of Maryland
"These magnificent maps—all 189—document almost every conceivable
aspect of one of the world's worst crimes. An epic and gruesome
drama receives a fitting representation. A superb contribution to
scholarship."—Philip D. Morgan, Johns Hopkins University
"This is a highly original work and represents a major contribution
to historical analysis. There are no comparable works on this
topic."—Stanley Engerman, University of Rochester
"This is an important project that will add greatly to our
understanding about the major, long-term patterns of trade between
Africa and the Americas, help to map the African Diaspora, and
place the transatlantic slave trade in larger world history
context."—Steve Behrendt, Victoria University of Wellington
"This is a major work of enormous consequence, without parallel in
the literature, deeply researched, highly original, and of
immeasurable value."—Harm J. de Blij, Michigan State University
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