Presents a comprehensive history of the African slave trade and of the suffering and tragedy of millions of Africans who were kidnapped and brought aboard slave ships to be sold in the Americas.

Juxtaposing stories of the past with his own present-day experiences, Phillips combines his remarkable skills as a travel essayist with an astute understanding of history. From an West African businessman's interactions with white Methodists in nineteenth-century Liverpool to an eighteenth-century African minister's complicity in the selling of slaves to a fearless white judge's crusade for racial justice in 1940s Charleston, South Carolina, Phillips...

Chronicles the history of the Atlantic Slave Trade from the late 1400s to its demise in the 1800s, discussing African participation in the capturing of slaves and slavery in Colonial America.

A historiographic study of the Atlantic slave trade that examines slavery in Western development, the American labor demand, Africa at the time of the slave trade, the European and African organization systems of the slave trade, the Middle Passage, the social and cultural impact of the slave trade on America, and the end of the slave trade.

A geographical history of slavery presented in maps and text, which focuses on slavery in the Americas but also covers earlier and later forms, examining the relationships between Europe, Africa, and the Americas connected to its practice.

This short but timely work gives the listener a sense of the urgency of African and world history at this moment in time.... Like many of the African-centered scholars who were Dr. Clarke's teachers and his sources of inspiration, he not only gives you accurate analysis and the descriptions of history, he provides prescription of what Africans have to do to bring into being a new day.

A collection of ten personal narratives of black Africans taken into slavery or who observed the slave trade at close hand.

The author examines the history of the Atlantic slave trade from the African perspective through the stories and of African chiefs and elders in southeastern Ghana.