The Atlantic Slave Trade (New Approaches to the Americas) - Softcover

Herbert S. Klein is the author of 22 books and 155 articles in several languages on Latin America and comparative themes in social and economic history. Among these books are The Middle Passage: Comparative Studies in the Atlantic Slave Trade (1978) and four studies of slavery, the most recent of which are Slavery and the Economy of São Paulo, 1750-1850 (co-author, 2003), African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean (co-author, 2008), and Slavery in Brazil (co-author, 2009), as well as four books on Bolivian history, including A Concise History of Bolivia (2003). He has also published books on such diverse themes as The American Finances of the Spanish Empire, 1680-1809 (1998) and A Population History of the United States (2004).

"...a most welcome synthesis..." Latin American Research Review

"Herbert Klein's long-standing leadership in quantitative studies of the Atlantic slave trade is thoroughly in evidence in this reasonably priced survey of the Atlantic slave trade, written for non-acdemic readers....a theoretical tour de force, and a very sophisticated and accessible one at that." Nadia Lovell, International Journal of African Historical Studies

"Klein is especially adept at using statistical studies to shed light on social and cultural history....This is a concise and thoughtful synthesis of interdisciplinary history." Journal of Interdisciplinary History

"...provides a convenient account of the complex history and extensive historiography of one of the most important and pervasive human activities of the past 500 years. In this short but important book, Herbert Klein sets out to examine the nature and importance of the trade and the reasons for its dissolution." Historian