Short History of Transatlantic Slavery (Morgan Kenneth)(Paperback)

From 1501, when the first slaves arrived in Hispaniola, until the nineteenth century, some twelve million people were abducted from west Africa and shipped across thousands of miles of ocean - the infamous Middle Passage - to work in the colonies of the New World. Perhaps two million Africans died at sea. Why was slavery so widely condoned, during most of this period, by leading lawyers, religious leaders, politicians and philosophers? How was it that the educated classes of the western world were prepared for so long to accept and promote an institution that would later ages be condemned as b A Short History of Transatlantic Slavery - Kenneth Morgan od authora Kenneth Morgan a nakladatelství za skvělé ceny na e-shopu Martinus.cz
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