“The Atlantic Slave Trade” by Klein Herbert is a synthesis made to educate readers with extensive scholarly research from the past quarter century on the Atlantic Slave trade. This book was written to close the gap between popular understanding about the slave trade and scholarly knowledge. The Book systematically organized the Atlantic slave trade in eight chapters starting from “Slavery in Western Development” to “The End of the Slave Trade”. In the following review of Klein Herbert’s work “The Atlantic Slave trade” I will summarize the book’s content, and survey its major strengths, and weaknesses.
Herbert Klein researched four hundred years of history of the Atlantic slave trade. As Klein state, his intention is to be” rational” about …show more content…
53). 1 Who was ultimately responsible for the Atlantic slave trade? It was "created" by Europeans and "brought to an end by the European intervention" (p. 73). 1 Readers are taught that long before Africans were enslaved, Europeans enslaved one another well before the African Slave trade began. The long term contract of the Mediterranean made Klein doubt the importance of “otherness”, of the African to the northern Europeans explaining the reason of the African slave trade (p17). 1 The History of Europeans slavery would have made you believe Africans, and slavery was not so special to the Europeans (p17). 1 The slave trade arose from the European great demands for goods, abundant supply of labor, and failure of meeting the needs of …show more content…
2 This was the time of the first peaceful mass political movement based on modern types of political propaganda in English history. In the last quarter of the 18th century, a group of Protestants attacked the practice of slavery, and the slave trade as being ungodly, and immoral. By 1808, even though the Atlantic slave trade was very profitable, Britain, and the United states ended the Atlantic slave trade. 1 The British tried to bring the trade to an end with Spain, Portugal, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Brazil by donating necessary resources.
Herbert Klein researched four hundred years of history of the Atlantic slave trade. As Klein state, his intention is to be” rational” about …show more content…
53). 1 Who was ultimately responsible for the Atlantic slave trade? It was "created" by Europeans and "brought to an end by the European intervention" (p. 73). 1 Readers are taught that long before Africans were enslaved, Europeans enslaved one another well before the African Slave trade began. The long term contract of the Mediterranean made Klein doubt the importance of “otherness”, of the African to the northern Europeans explaining the reason of the African slave trade (p17). 1 The History of Europeans slavery would have made you believe Africans, and slavery was not so special to the Europeans (p17). 1 The slave trade arose from the European great demands for goods, abundant supply of labor, and failure of meeting the needs of …show more content…
2 This was the time of the first peaceful mass political movement based on modern types of political propaganda in English history. In the last quarter of the 18th century, a group of Protestants attacked the practice of slavery, and the slave trade as being ungodly, and immoral. By 1808, even though the Atlantic slave trade was very profitable, Britain, and the United states ended the Atlantic slave trade. 1 The British tried to bring the trade to an end with Spain, Portugal, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Brazil by donating necessary resources.