Customer Review: The Atlantic Slave Trade is an important part of history of several nations: great part of Africa of course, the nations in America who were immmersed in this trade as buyers and those European countries who had control of the trade to its colonies. One important question that I had in my mind... more info
Customer Review: This book is in fact not written by Diouf but is a collection of over a dozen different essays that discuss how slavery affected West Africa. The book automatically wins points for simply addressing this topic, especially because most books about African enslavement are about its existence in the... more info
Customer Review: This was indeed a fine book on a certain topic--namely the history of the Cape Coast Castle. However, based on (1) the title of the book ("Door of No Return"), (2) the subtitle of the book ("the history of the Cape Coast Castle AND the Atlantic Slave Trade") and (3) the drawing on the cover of the... more info
Customer Review: Baum has done an excellent job at capturing the impact of slavery on traditional African religion. The fact that an often ignored subject is gaining insightful scolarly attention is great and represents a definite progression within the feild.
Customer Review: I just started this book, but what struck me is the authors obvious moral repulsion of slavery. He states this in the Introduction, but he repeats it so much that you begin to think you're reading about morality instead of history.
Customer Review: Focusing on the early decades of South Carolina, Alan Gallay places English colonization in the context of the French and Spanish presence in North America, and of the immensely disrupted "first nation" cultures struggling to recreate stability in the face of European intrusions. Since the book won... more info
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