Book description
The first telling of the unknown story of America's two-hundred-year history as a slave-trading nation
"A work of impressive breadth, deep research, and evenhanded analysis."-James Oakes, New York Review of Books
A total of 305,000 enslaved Africans arrived in the New World aboard American vessels over a span…
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Why read it?
1 author picked American Slavers as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I liked the balanced, wholistic coverage of US involvement in the slave trade adding up to a coherent story.
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