A new "Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade" draws on five decades of research in archives around the north and south Atlantic to provide 189 detailed and sumptuously drawn maps that answer many questions.
"...in the West Indies, their hard-hearted overseers have neither regard to the laws of God, nor the life of their fellow men." --Captive Ottobah Cuguano, writing in 1787, quoted by David Eltis and David Richardson
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