The African Link: The African Link: British Attitudes in the Era of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1550-1807

by Anthony J. Barker

The African Link, first published in 1978, breaks new ground in the studies of pre-19th century racial prejudice by emphasizing the importance of the West African end of the slave trade. For the British, the important African link was the commercial one which brought slave traders into contact with the peoples of West Africa. Far from remaining covert, their experiences were reflected in a vast array of scholarly, educational, popular and polemical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032316705
• ISBN13: 9781032316703
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"