The Rise of the Transatlantic Slave Trade in Western Africa

From Emergent Africa Sat Aug 30 2014, 14:28:00

From Smart Monkey, a conversation with Toby Green author of The Rise of the Transatlantic Slave Trade in Western Africa: 1300-1589:

Historian Toby Green, author of The Rise of the Transatlantic Slave Trade in Western Africa: 1300-1589 on: the scale of the Transatlantic slave trade over 350 years; its relationship to the previously existing slave trade and the growth of global capitalism; and its impact on those parts of Africa where the Transatlantic slave trade first took off.

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