Perhaps the newest and biggest book to deal in the topic of the Atlantic slave trade is a complication by Hugh Tomas. This author has written several books of this topic and he sums up how the Atlantic slave trade began in a new book that covers extensively the subject of slavery I the Americas. The book "Slave Trade" is a huge volume covering this controversial subject of slavery and the origins of Spanish conquistadors bringing black slaves from Africa for the first time in this twisted trade that didn't end until Brazil finally ended its legalization of this trait in the 1880's. Thomas shows ho this rivalry for the trade between Portugal and Spain would soon engulf other European powers eager for the quick profits of this slave trade and transforming land quickly for cultivation. the making of people as commodities and placing value as if they were currency is the basis of new world wealth and it quickly materialized into a nightmare for those of the regulated skin hue while at the same time provided a bonanza jackpot for those able to get access to this human cargo and put them to free work.
This trade built up empires and caused the disruption of African society as many African kingdoms joined in the game and provided the wars and slaves for these new World lands while Europeans provided African slaving tribes the weapons to wage war on their neighbors and provide chattel for the Americas. the role of sugar and the sudden demand from Europeans for sweet drinks is one of the primary reasons slavery in the Caribbean grew so fast and needed brutal conditions to meet this demand. I never really understood the relation with commodity trading and the necessity of slavery to produce the work few would ever be willing to subject themselves for pity pay and how primarily these products even got to a market.
The complicity of the African people on this trade is dealt with in this book as it should long being ignored by multi-culturalists political correct crowd who pushed a false narrative of European ships docking off the rivers looking for wayward fishermen or herdsmen. many African kingdoms thrived and enlarged with these alliances providing slavery's institutions to grow. 
Britain really though grew and maximized this trade with their successful deliveries and growth of slavery producing mass wealth in places such as Liverpool and the role of slavery building up the British Empire is another discussion not enough brought up in history conversations. looking at how late they got into the trade and its influence in it really exposes the profit-driven maximization of English slavery that differentiated it from all other forms of human slavery that had existed in the world up to that time. One gets the picture that a Hugh Thomas is rightfully ashamed of these activities of the English ancestors and why they had an empire and were richer than rest of the world. he clearly and rightfully is ashamed at these actions and his books dealing with slavery really are an indication and informative account of this stain of English history. This mans slavery books are highly informative giving a better understanding how this practice economically thrived and was allowed to go on for as long as it did despite the growing criticisms and battles against it early from the start of this institution which many then saw as pure evil.
Britain really though grew and maximized this trade with their successful deliveries and growth of slavery producing mass wealth in places such as Liverpool and the role of slavery building up the British Empire is another discussion not enough brought up in history conversations. looking at how late they got into the trade and its influence in it really exposes the profit-driven maximization of English slavery that differentiated it from all other forms of human slavery that had existed in the world up to that time. One gets the picture that a Hugh Thomas is rightfully ashamed of these activities of the English ancestors and why they had an empire and were richer than rest of the world. he clearly and rightfully is ashamed at these actions and his books dealing with slavery really are an indication and informative account of this stain of English history. This mans slavery books are highly informative giving a better understanding how this practice economically thrived and was allowed to go on for as long as it did despite the growing criticisms and battles against it early from the start of this institution which many then saw as pure evil.
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