The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1440 - 1870
The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1440 - 1870
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奴隶贸易：大西洋奴隶贸易的故事，1440 年 - 1870 年
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1997
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H. Thomas
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经过多年的研究，获奖历史学家休·托马斯以一种平衡的方式描绘了奴隶贸易的完整历史。从第一次葡萄牙奴隶探险开始，他描述和分析了历史上最大、最复杂的海上和商业冒险之一的崛起。在1492年至1870年间，大约有1100万黑奴被从非洲带到美洲，在种植园、矿山工作，或在家里当佣人。《奴隶贸易》充满了反派和英雄，并被目击者的描述所照亮。休·托马斯的成就不仅是展示了一段令人信服的当时历史，而且还回答了一些有争议的问题，如贸易商是谁，获利的程度，以及为什么这么多非洲尺子和人民愿意合作。托马斯还动人地描述了从奴隶自己那里可以获得的这样的账户。
After many years of research, award-winning historian Hugh Thomas portrays, in a balanced account, the complete history of the slave trade. Beginning with the first Portuguese slaving expeditions, he describes and analyzes the rise of one of the largest and most elaborate maritime and commercial ventures in all of history. Between 1492 and 1870, approximately eleven million black slaves were carried from Africa to the Americas to work on plantations, in mines, or as servants in houses. "The Slave Trade" is alive with villains and heroes and illuminated by eyewitness accounts. Hugh Thomas's achievement is not only to present a compelling history of the time but to answer as well such controversial questions as who the traders were, the extent of the profits, and why so many African rulers and peoples willingly collaborated. Thomas also movingly describes such accounts as are available from the slaves themselves.