Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

A brilliant rendition of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database. This atlas is essential to the study of chattel slavery. No student of slavery should be without it. --Ira Berlin, University of Maryland These magnificent maps--all 189--document almost every conceivable aspect of one of the world's worst crimes. An epic and gruesome drama receives a fitting representation. A superb contribution to scholarship. --Philip D. Morgan, Johns Hopkins University This is a highly original work and represents a major contribution to historical analysis. There are no comparable works on this topic. --Stanley Engerman, University of Rochester This is an important project that will add greatly to our understanding about the major, long-term patterns of trade between Africa and the Americas, help to map the African Diaspora, and place the transatlantic slave trade in larger world history context. --Steve Behrendt, Victoria University of Wellington This is a major work of enormous consequence, without parallel in the literature, deeply researched, highly original, and of immeasurable value. --Harm J. de Blij, Michigan State University A monumental chronicle of this historical tragedy, one that records some 35,000 individual slaving voyages, roughly 80 percent of those made. . . . [This book] is a human document as well as a rigorous accounting. It is filled with moving poems, photographs, letters and diary entries. --Dwight Garner, New York Times A monumental chronicle of this historical tragedy, one that records some 35,000 individual slaving voyages, roughly 80 percent of those made. The authors remind us that only 4 percent of the captives disembarked in what became the United States, while 95 percent arrived in the Caribbean and South America. Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade is a human document as well as a rigorous accounting. It is filled with moving poems, photographs, letters and diary entries. --Dwight Garner, New York Times A remarkable resource. . . . The charts raise as many questions as they answer; this is entirely the point. --James Delbourgo, Times Higher Education . . . a ground-breaking project: the Atlas will be indispensable for all those interested in the slave trade. --Jane Webster, Times Literary Supplement . . . a beautifully produced volume . . . The whole is topped and tailed by two excellent essays: a masterly introduction by David Brion Davis and a rousing afterword by David Blight. The end result of all this international, scholarly effort is a remarkable book which is not only a pleasure to have on one's shelves, but a model of scholarly and publishing activity. . . . Here, and in their varied (and complex) work as individual scholars, Eltis and Richardson have revealed themselves to be among the most imaginative, influential and distinguished historians of their generation. --James Walvin, International Journal of Maritime History One of the most ambitious books of this--or any other--publishing season: a fascinating, horrifying, beautifully put-together atlas of the transatlantic slave trade. --Very Short List Literary selections and paintings/illustrations are included to broaden readers' understanding of the human story behind the maps and charted statistics. --The Atlanta Journal-Constitution This marvelous book will change how people think of the slave trade. It deserves every accolade it is likely to get. --Nicolas van de Walle, Foreign Affairs This is a beautiful atlas . . . a valuable reference for scholars of slavery and the Atlantic slave trade and a teaching tool for anyone engaged with African or African diasporic history . . . I'll return to it for years to come and look forward to introducing it to my students. --Walter Hawthorne, The Americas Atlas is a testament to the value of collaborative effort . . . a substantial and lasting contribution to the economic history of transatlantic slaving and our understanding of the subject . . . an excellent reference text. --Kwasi Konadu, African Studies Review A brilliant rendition of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database. This atlas is essential to the study of chattel slavery. No student of slavery should be without it. --Ira Berlin, University of Maryland These magnificent maps--all 189--document almost every conceivable aspect of one of the world's worst crimes. An epic and gruesome drama receives a fitting representation. A superb contribution to scholarship. --Philip D. Morgan, Johns Hopkins University Sophisticated and erudite, the maps and the introductions to them offer the best and most accessible interpretations on various aspects of the transatlantic slave trade. Full of insights and new findings, the strong analysis and evidence presented will create a permanent distinguished stamp on the book, confirming it as a groundbreaking text for both beginners and advanced students. --Toyin Falola, University of Texas at Austin The Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade is a dramatic step forward in the cartographic representation of the slave trade, tracing the flow of captives in much greater detail and with more precision than ever before. This atlas also systematically links African ports to American ports and hinterland African states to the ports from which their slaves were exported: an important step and a reminder that a great deal of the slave trade began deep in Africa. --John Thornton, author of Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800 This is a highly original work and represents a major contribution to historical analysis. There are no comparable works on this topic. --Stanley Engerman, University of Rochester