With extraordinary skill, Joseph C. Miller explores the complex relationships among the separate economies of Africa, Europe, and the South Atlantic that collectively supported the slave trade. He places the grim history of the trade itself within the context of the rise of merchant capitalism in the eighteenth century. Throughout, Miller illuminates the experiences of the slaves themselves, reconstructing what can be known of their sufferings at the hands of their buyers and sellers.
- ISBN13 9780299115647
- Publish Date 15 October 1996 (first published 31 July 1989)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Wisconsin Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 800
- Language English