Bibliograph

Spirits of the passage, the Transatlantic slave trade in the seventeenth century, text by Madeleine Burnside ; edited by Rosemarie Robotham ; foreword by Cornel West

Type

Label

Spirits of the passage, the Transatlantic slave trade in the seventeenth century, text by Madeleine Burnside ; edited by Rosemarie Robotham ; foreword by Cornel West

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 182-184) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Spirits of the passage

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

text by Madeleine Burnside ; edited by Rosemarie Robotham ; foreword by Cornel West

Sub title

the Transatlantic slave trade in the seventeenth century

Summary

The story of the early slave trade between Africa and the New World, especially Barbados, is told around the discovery of a wrecked slave ship. The book points out the differences between slavery in the seventeenth and the nineteenth centuries

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