The Transatlantic Slave Trade

The Human Cost of an Empire's Wealth

von James E. Auman

278 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

An ocean became a highway of human suffering, and almost no one saw it coming.

What you're about to discover will change how you see four centuries of history.

It began with a single Portuguese ship, uncertain sailors staring at an unfamiliar African coastline in the early 1400s. No one on that ship could have imagined they were setting in motion a system that would eventually span three continents, transport millions of human beings across the Atlantic, and reshape the modern world in ways still visible today.

Few people know that African kingdoms were active, powerful negotiators within this trade, not passive bystanders. Few realize how insurance policies once treated human lives as calculable cargo losses. And few understand just how close the world came to letting this system continue indefinitely, had it not been for decades of relentless, patient resistance from the enslaved themselves, and eventually from abolitionists willing to fight an empire of profit with nothing but conviction and persistence.

The Transatlantic Slave Trade follows this entire story in vivid, narrative detail, from Portugal's earliest coastal outposts to the Middle Passage's horrors, from sugar empires built on stolen lives to the Haitian Revolution that overturned one, and finally to the last chains falling in Brazil in 1888.

This book matters because this history did not end when slavery became illegal. Its economic and cultural fingerprints remain embedded in the world we live in right now.

Readers will gain a complete, human, and unflinching understanding of how this system was built, sustained, resisted, and eventually dismantled, told with the depth of history and the pull of a story you won't want to put down.

Whether you're a history enthusiast, an educator, or simply someone who wants the full, honest story behind headlines and half-remembered lessons, this book is for you.

The hidden truth behind one of history's largest forced migrations is waiting.

Ready to uncover it? Get your copy today and start the journey.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798176589658
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 23.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Independently published