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The Transatlantic Slave Trade: How Millions Were Enslaved, Transported, and Forced to Build the Atlantic World (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798196216459)
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xThey were stolen from ordinary days. Walking home. Working in the fields. Feeding their children.
And then they were gone.
What happened to the estimated fifteen million African people swept into the transatlantic slave trade is not simply a chapter of history. It is the story of how the modern world was built, who built it, and what it truly cost. Few people know the full scope of what unfolded across those four hundred years of calculated terror, and fewer still have been told the complete truth about who these people were before the ships came for them.
The Transatlantic Slave Trade: How Millions Were Enslaved, Transported, and Forced to Build the Atlantic World takes you inside the full arc of this history with unflinching honesty and deeply human storytelling.
You will walk through the thriving African civilizations that existed long before European contact. You will witness the organized raids, the brutal marches, the airless castle dungeons at the edge of the continent, and the eight weeks of horror that defined the Middle Passage crossing. You will meet the men and women who refused to surrender, who organized revolts on the open ocean, who chose death over bondage, and who carried their culture, their language, and their dignity across an ocean that was designed to swallow all three.
What you are about to discover will permanently change how you see the foundations of the modern world.
This book reveals the real economics behind the slave trade, the corporations and financial institutions that profited from human suffering, and the agricultural knowledge that enslaved Africans brought with them that made the plantation economy possible. It traces the illegal trade that continued decades after abolition, follows the Amistad rebellion from a single nail to the Supreme Court, and confronts the legacy that no Atlantic society has yet fully reckoned with.
This book is for anyone who believes that history should be told honestly, completely, and with the full humanity of every person at its center.
The walk that millions of people never finished deserves to be understood.
Author: Eva Myers
ISBN-13: 9798196216459
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 05/09/2026
Pages: 190
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.58lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.40d
And then they were gone.
What happened to the estimated fifteen million African people swept into the transatlantic slave trade is not simply a chapter of history. It is the story of how the modern world was built, who built it, and what it truly cost. Few people know the full scope of what unfolded across those four hundred years of calculated terror, and fewer still have been told the complete truth about who these people were before the ships came for them.
The Transatlantic Slave Trade: How Millions Were Enslaved, Transported, and Forced to Build the Atlantic World takes you inside the full arc of this history with unflinching honesty and deeply human storytelling.
You will walk through the thriving African civilizations that existed long before European contact. You will witness the organized raids, the brutal marches, the airless castle dungeons at the edge of the continent, and the eight weeks of horror that defined the Middle Passage crossing. You will meet the men and women who refused to surrender, who organized revolts on the open ocean, who chose death over bondage, and who carried their culture, their language, and their dignity across an ocean that was designed to swallow all three.
What you are about to discover will permanently change how you see the foundations of the modern world.
This book reveals the real economics behind the slave trade, the corporations and financial institutions that profited from human suffering, and the agricultural knowledge that enslaved Africans brought with them that made the plantation economy possible. It traces the illegal trade that continued decades after abolition, follows the Amistad rebellion from a single nail to the Supreme Court, and confronts the legacy that no Atlantic society has yet fully reckoned with.
This book is for anyone who believes that history should be told honestly, completely, and with the full humanity of every person at its center.
The walk that millions of people never finished deserves to be understood.
Author: Eva Myers
ISBN-13: 9798196216459
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 05/09/2026
Pages: 190
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.58lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.40d
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