Author: Nicholas Radburn
Nicholas Radburn’s “Traders in Men” explains how thousands of merchants collectively transformed the slave trade by devising highly efficient but violent new business methods.
African brokers developed the infrastructure that facilitated the sale of millions of people while Britons invented shipping methods for American slave traders to sell shiploads of people to colonial buyers.
Truly Atlantic-wide in its vision, this study shows how the slave trade dragged millions in its terrible vortex and became one of the most important phenomena in world history.
