John Thornton's revisionist history of Africa and Africans in the Atlantic world — arguing that Africans were active agents in the Atlantic slave trade and that African military power, culture, and decision-making shaped the development of the Americas.
Restores African agency in Atlantic history — Thornton demonstrates that African rulers and merchants were active participants in and beneficiaries of the slave trade rather than passive victims, and that African cultural and military contributions shaped the Americas far more than previously recognized.
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