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David Eltis
Atlantic Cataclysm: Rethinking the Atlantic Slave Trades
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025
David Eltis’s Atlantic Cataclysm is an indispensable book for college students and anyone seeking a nuanced, deeply researched, and global understanding of slavery. This masterwork, grounded in decades of archival research and statistical data, obliterates parochial and mythologized versions of the Atlantic slave trade. It compels readers to reassess what they think they know about slavery, particularly the tendency to see it as a uniquely American tragedy. (more…)