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A study of the role of cowrie-shell money in West African trade, particularly the slave trade.

By the time the “Scramble for Africa” among European colonial powers began in the late nineteenth century, Africa had already been globally connected for ce

Though the history of slavery is a central topic for African, Atlantic world and world history, most of the sources presenting research in this area are Europea

This monograph was begun during my residence as Rogers Memorial Fellow at Harvard University, and is based mainly upon a study of the sources, i.e., national, S

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 f