James Walvin’s book A World Transformed provides a wide overview of the transatlantic slave trade and of the nations that benefited from it. The scope of this book is massive in covering over 300 years of the transatlantic slave trade and how European countries amassed vast riches from it. Walvin demonstrates how “enslaved African labor created tentacles of economic activity which crept in the distant corners of the world.”[1] He writes that the trade lasted from 1501 until 1867 when the last of the slave ships transported Africans to Cuba.[2] During this period of over 400 years,” “an armada of Read more