PDF American Military Equipage; 1851-1872: A Description by Word and Picture of What the American Solider; Sailor; and Marine of These Years Wore and Car by Frederick P. Todd in History

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After many years of research; award-winning historian Hugh Thomas portrays; in a balanced account; the complete history of the slave trade.Beginning with the first Portuguese slaving expeditions; he describes and analyzes the rise of one of the largest and most elaborate maritime and commercial ventures in all of history. Between 1492 and 1870; approximately eleven million black slaves were carried from Africa to the Americas to work on plantations; in mines; or as servants in houses. The Slave Trade is alive with villains and heroes and illuminated by eyewitness accounts. Hugh Thomas's achievement is not only to present a compelling history of the time but to answer as well such controversial questions as who the traders were; the extent of the profits; and why so many African rulers and peoples willingly collaborated. Thomas also movingly describes such accounts as are available from the slaves themselves.