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Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

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A monumental cartographic history of the African slave trade, updated and expanded in a new edition In the first edition of Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, two leading historians explored the details of the 350-year history of African slave traffic to the New World. They... Read More
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A monumental cartographic history of the African slave trade, updated and expanded in a new edition

In the first edition of Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, two leading historians explored the details of the 350-year history of African slave traffic to the New World. They showed, with nearly 200 original maps, where the captives came from, how long the journeys lasted, how many died on the voyages, and what the ports and destinations were. They also presented details about the trade itself, including the economics.

In this groundbreaking revised edition, 25 new maps locate the major language groups involved in the traffic and show the movement of Africans from the interior of the continent to the Americas, as well as from one part of the Americas to another. Accompanying the maps, as in the first edition, are revealing illustrations and contemporary literary selections, including poems, letters, and diary entries.

With up-to-date information drawn from the database Slave Voyages (www.slavevoyages.org), with its records of more than 36,000 voyages, the atlas provides the fullest possible picture of the extent and inhumanity of one of the largest forced migrations in history.

Series: The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780300278552

Publisher: Yale University Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 17 March 2026

Country: United States

Imprint: Yale University Press

Edition: 2nd Revised edition

Illustration: 332 color + 5 b-w illus.

Contributors:

  • Foreword by Toyin Falola
  • Afterword by David W. Blight
  • Foreword by David Brion Davis

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 229.0mm

Height: 305.0mm

Weight: 700g

Pages: 392

About the Author

David Eltis is Robert W. Woodruff Professor Emeritus of History, Emory University. His prizewinning books include The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas. David Richardson (1946–2023) was the director of the Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation and professor of economic history, University of Hull, England. His final book was Principles and Agents: The British Slave Trade and Its Abolition. Philip Misevich is associate professor of history at St. John’s University. He is the author of Abolition and the Transformation of Atlantic Commerce in Southern Sierra Leone, 1790s to 1860s.

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