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Traders in Men: Merchants and the Transformation of the Transatlantic Slave Trade Hardcover – July 25, 2023

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A sweeping new history that reveals how British, African, and American merchants developed the transatlantic slave trade
 
“This is a landmark study given its clear status as easily the best researched and most comprehensive book on the British slave trade to date.”—David Eltis, coauthor of Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
 
“A masterful account of one of the most brutal moments in the history of capitalist modernity. Radburn brilliantly details all aspects of the process of commodification of human beings in the Liverpool slave trade, vividly depicting the long journeys endured by Africans in Africa, across the Atlantic, and in the Americas.”—Leonardo Marques, Universidade Federal Fluminense
 
During the eighteenth century, Britain’s slave trade exploded in size. Formerly a small and geographically constricted business, the trade had, by the eve of the American Revolution, grown into an Atlantic-wide system through which fifty thousand men, women, and children were enslaved every year.
 
In this sweeping new history, Nicholas Radburn explains how thousands of slaving merchants in Africa, Britain, and the British Americas collectively created this cancerous system by devising highly efficient, but also violent, new business methods. African brokers developed commercial techniques that facilitated the enslavement and sale of millions of people. Britons invented shipping methods that quelled enslaved people’s constant resistance on the Middle Passage. And American slave traders formulated brutal techniques through which shiploads of people could be quickly sold to a variety of colonial buyers. Truly Atlantic-wide in its vision, this study shows how the slave trade became one of the most important phenomena in world history and dragged millions of people into the trade’s terrible vortex.
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    July 25, 2023
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  6. ISBN-10
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“This is a landmark study given its clear status as easily the best researched and most comprehensive book on the British slave trade to date.”—David Eltis, coauthor of Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

“A masterful account of one of the most brutal moments in the history of capitalist modernity. Radburn brilliantly details all aspects of the process of commodification of human beings in the Liverpool slave trade, vividly depicting the long journeys endured by Africans in Africa, across the Atlantic, and in the Americas.”—Leonardo Marques, Universidade Federal Fluminense

“Nicholas Radburn’s rich scholarship provides an overview of the entire system of the British slave trade as it functioned at its height in the eighteenth century. Every scholar, student, and general reader with an interest in the slave trade will benefit from this study.”—Randy J. Sparks, Tulane University

"A meticulously researched account of how British slave merchants in their interactions with African agents made very calculated economic decisions in order to maximize the profits made from the slave trade, and how these decisions impacted Atlantic African societies and contributed to dehumanizing African men, women, and children."—Ana Lucia Araujo, Howard University

"A pioneering work that explains how British merchants and their transatlantic partners transformed five stages of enslavement, 'many Middle Passages,' from Africa to the Americas."—Stephen D. Behrendt, Victoria University of Wellington

About the Author

Nicholas Radburn is a senior lecturer in Atlantic history at Lancaster University and coeditor of www.slavevoyages.org. He lives in Lancaster, England, formerly one of Britain’s largest slave-trading ports.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Yale University Press (July 25, 2023)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0300257619
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0300257618
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.45 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.06 x 1.1 x 9.29 inches
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cmurrell
5.0 out of 5 stars Best Book on British Slave Trade
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This outstanding book is now the must-read book for any reader interested in Britain’s role in the slave trade from the 1600s to 1807. It is also superbly and efficiently written. The book could easily have been twice as long as it is, but the author possesses an economy of words. He gives equal focus to three parts of the slave trade: the acquisition of African captives in Africa; carrying the captives in the Middle Passage; and the sale of the captives by factors in slave ports and the inner workings of the internal slave trade. This last part is hardly discussed in some slave trade books. As for the first part the author has a thorough discussion of the roles of African middlemen and the wars that made captives available for sale to white European slave ship captains. He does not spend much time discussing the abolitionist movement. This book is about the inner workings of the slave trade, how it changed over time, and the traders in men who profited. The author discusses the latest scholarship but without impinging on his narrative and adds many new insights of his own.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The emotional experience
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Understand what African American experiened with slavery for 300 years.
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