Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800

This book explores Africa''s involvement in the Atlantic world from the fifteenth century to the eighteenth century. It focuses especially on the causes and consequences of the slave trade, in Africa, in Europe, and in the New World. African institutions, political events, and economic structures shaped Africa''s voluntary involvement in the Atlantic arena before 1680. Africa''s economic and milit...