This stunning narrative details with accuracy and feeling the growth, practice, and abolition of the Atlantic slave trade. Eyewitness accounts by sailors and shipowners and by slaves who survived the Middle Passage tell the story of the men, women, and children who were branded, shackled, crowded into dark holds, and carried to a life of slavery in America. This book is part of Garrard's TOWARD FREEDOM series, which provides a clear picture of the black man in America and relates the dramatic story of his fight for freedom, equality, and the right to full participation in the American way of life.

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