Word: mannix
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Black Cargoes, by Daniel Mannix. The breathtakingly brutal history of how some 15 million Africans were transported to the New World - the more telling because quietly told...
Black Cargoes, by Daniel Mannix. A detailed account of the savage Atlantic slave trade, all the more gripping because carefully understated...
BLACK CARGOES (306 pp.)-Daniel P. Mannix with Malcolm Cowley-Viking...
...Heathen Bondmen." Matter-of-factly presenting such homely details, Author Daniel Mannix has produced a carefully understated but chilling account of the whole 3½ centuries (1518 to 1865) during which 15 million Africans were snatched from their homes and delivered into slavery in the New World. This savage traffic began, ironically, as the result of one man's compassion. In 1517 a pious priest from Haiti interceded with the Spanish King to protest the treatment of the island's gentle Indians, whom the colonists were slaughtering in droves in a futile effort to make the rest work...