The Transatlantic Slave Trade: A History,

by James A. Rawley, Stephen D. Behrendt

The transatlantic slave trade played a major role in the development of the modern world. It both gave birth to and resulted from the shift from feudalism into the European Commercial Revolution. James A. Rawley fills a scholarly gap in the historical discussion of the slave trade from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century by providing one volume covering the economics, demography, epidemiology, and politics of the trade.

 

This revised edition of Rawley’s classic, produced with the assistance of Stephen D. Behrendt, includes emended text to reflect the major changes in historiography; current slave trade data tables and accompanying text; updated notes; and the addition of a select bibliography.

448 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1981

About the author

James A. Rawley was professor of history emeritus at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.