Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade (The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History)

The Transatlantic Slave Trade Atlas is a groundbreaking work that provides the fullest possible picture of the extent and inhumanity of one of the largest forced migrations in history.

With nearly 200 maps, specially created for this volume, it explores every detail of the African slave traffic to the New World.

The atlas is based on an online database (www.slavevoyages.org) with records on nearly 35,000 slaving voyages - roughly 80 percent of all such voyages ever made.

This comprehensive and up-to-date atlas shows which nations participated in the slave trade, where ships were outfitted, where captives boarded ship, and where they were landed in the Americas, as well as the experience of the transatlantic voyage and the geographic dimensions of the eventual abolition of the traffic.

Accompanying the maps are illustrations and contemporary literary selections, including poems, letters, and diary entries, intended to enhance readers' understanding of the human story underlying the trade from its inception to its end.

This monumental work is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of slavery and the transatlantic slave trade.