This book contains a number of studies on various aspects of the Transatlantic slave trade. Studies include an examination of mortality rates on slave ships, among both slaves and crew. Other essays address how certain regions of Africa provided slaves for certain regions of America in different periods of the slave trade. Further studies debate the influence of particular African regional and ethnic cultures on various locales in the Americas.

This book offers insight into American, European and African developments over the course of the slave trade. This book should interest anyone studying African-American history, African history, the history of the slave trade, or immigration history.

Those interested should also consider Philip D. Curtin's The Atlantic Slave Trade: A Census, as well as the database on CD ROM edited by David Eltis and company, entitled, The Transatlantic Slave Trade. The information available on CD ROM provided much of the basis for the research in this book.

For more on the slave trade, consider works by Philip Curtin, John Thornton, Joseph Miller, James F. Searing, Boubacar Barry, Richard Roberts, Hugh Thomas, and Paul Lovejoy.

I am very disappointed by A. Robinson's review of DR. Eltis's book. Mentioning criminal, so was messing up my a level. cheers. anyway just because he got the doctorate at uni and you didn't doesn't mean you have vent you frustration on the internet, you worthless piece of.... Massive ups to Joel Selvaduri PRT who now has something to tell us all.

well dave me old mate, you've only gone and done it again. absolutely bloody marvellous. how such nipples as Mr.A.Robinson can go and sat that sort of thing is beyond me. a ceratinty for the grandmother's stocking this year and for many years to come. she won't notice, isn't it great!!! well floreat, floreat and may there be many more masterpieces from you and none from the nipple (Mr.A Blobbo himself)and maybe i'll c ya crusin' the high street one day. up yer arse, and congats on another good'un.

Aye! Dis book is like, well massive! It don't matter that I did not understand two words out of three, but I know for a fact dat 'Comedy' DJ Eltis is indeed D man. Meanwhile Mr A Robinson is obviously not like cultured enough to fully understand the full impact of this well wicked book. Big Ups Dave, well massive Aye! 4 real

In his work titled The Rise of Africa Slavery in the Americas, David Eltis approaches the subject with the aim of highlighting "the tensions that emerge as people pursue goals, moral or material, that cannot be achieved at once or are at odds with some aspect of their individual or their system of belief." Here, Eltis attempts to clarify the "How?" of slavery. While offering a great insight into the intentions and rational of European enslavement of Africans, Eltis does not provide a revolutionary new view of slavery. His work is centered around proving that "it was not just European power and resources that made overseas expansion possible, but also the subcontinent's odd social structure and values." Eltis adds support to the evidence that Africans not only played a significant role in the development of the Atlantic Slave Trade but that the success of the trade was more due to the strengths of the African traders and the strength of number among the enslaved.