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The Transatlantic Slave Trade

The Transatlantic Slave Trade

Landmarks, Legacies, Expectations

Edited by James Kwesi Anquandah

Unesco celebrated 2004 as the international year to commemorate the struggle against slavery and its abolition. The Ghanaian Government’s National Slave Route Project Committee held an international conference on transatlantic slave as part of that initiative. These papers are largely the proceedings of that conference, with the inclusion of a few papers from the National Conference on the Slave Trade in 2003. Supported by the Netherlands Embassy, Unesco, and  an individual benefactor, the conference brought together over 400 people: Government Ministers, Unesco and diplomatic representatives, and scholars from Africa, the Caribbean, Australia, Europe and the USA. Twenty-nine papers and statements are included. The book is divided into opening statements, followed by papers on three main themes: landmarks, legacies and expectations. 

ISBN 9789988647735 | 400 pages | 229 x 152 mm | Colour Illustrations and Colour Photographs | 2008 | Sub-Saharan Publishers, Ghana | Hardback

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About the Editor

James Kwesi Anquandah

James Kwesi Anquandah is the Chairman of the Research Unit of the National Slave Route Project of the Ministry of Tourism and Diasporan Relations; and Professor of Archaeology at the University of Ghana, Legon.

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