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Making the Black Atlantic

Britain and the African Diaspora

James Walvin author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:6th Oct '16

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This Bloomsbury Academic Collection consists of classic titles on the history of the transatlantic slave trade.

The British role in the shaping of the African diaspora was central: the British carried more Africans across the Atlantic than any other nation and their colonial settlements in the Caribbean and North America absorbed vast numbers of Africans. The crops produced by those slaves helped to lay the foundations for Western material well-being, and their associated cultural habits helped to shape key areas of Western sociability that survive to this day. Britain was also central in the drive to end slavery, in her own possessions and elsewhere in the world. Making the Black Atlantic presents a coherent story of Britain’s role in the African diaspora, its origins, progress, and transformation.

ISBN: 9781474292894

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 429g

208 pages