Shaping the New World : African slavery in the Americas, 1500-1888 / Eric Nellis.

Between 1500 and the middle of the nineteenth century, some 12.5 million slaves were sent as bonded labour from Africa to the European settlements in the Americas. Shaping the New World introduces students to the origins, growth, and consolidation of African slavery in the Americas and race-based sl...

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Main Author:	Nellis, Eric Guest, 1938- (Author)
Corporate Author:	Canadian Historical Association
Language:	English
Published:	Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2013.
Series:	International themes and issues (Toronto, Ont.) ; v. 3.
Subjects:	Slavery > Brazil > History. Slavery > Caribbean Area > History. Slavery > Latin America > History. Slavery > United States > History. Enslaved persons > America > Social conditions. Slave trade > Africa > History. Antislavery movements > America > History.
Physical Description:	xix, 183 pages : maps ; 22 cm. Issued also in electronic format.
Format:	Book