From the mid-fifteenth century to the close of the nineteenth, it is estimated that more than 12 million people from Africa were forced onto slave ships and transported to the Americas; at least 11 million survived the journey. Even after Britain banned the importation of African slaves in its colonies in 1807, and the U.S. followed suit in 1808, m
Author Biography
James Walvin is one of the foremost historians of the slave trade. The author of over 30 books, he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Professor Emeritus at the University of York. He lives in York, UK.
