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A sweeping new history that reveals how British, African, and American merchants developed the transatlantic slave trade

"This is a landmark study given its clear status as easily the best researched and most comprehensive book on the British slave trade to date."-David Eltis, coauthor of Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave…

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This book provided great coverage of the slave trade centered from a British imperial perspective with a good focus on money.

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