The Atlantic Slave Trade: 4 Volume Set

Jeremy Black (Editor)

Ashgate, 2006

[Interesting provenance: From the private library of renowned historian, Philip D. Morgan.] 4 volume set. Ashgate printings, 2006. Bound in publisher's green cloth. Gilt lettering. Hardcover. Good bindings and covers. Edge wear. Clean, unmarked pages. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.

Contents: v.1. Origins-1600; v.2. Seventeenth Century; v.3. Eighteenth Century; v.4. Nineteenth Century. 

Covering the Atlantic slave trade from its origins to 1600, this work looks at the reasons for its development. Particular attention is devoted to the demographic situation in Latin America and to European attitudes to slavery. 

From the professional library of Dr. Philip D. Morgan, a professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. Morgan specializes in the African-American experience, the history of slavery, the early Caribbean, and the study of the early Atlantic world. Morgan is the author of more than 14 books on Colonial America and African American history. He has won both the Bancroft Prize and the Frederick Douglass Prize for his book Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry (1998).