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"The American Slave Trade: Origins, Prosperity, and End" tells the evil history of the slave trade for more than four hundred years. When did the first slave ship land in America? Was the origin of the American slave trade based on good or evil? How were the early slave ships equipped? How did the American slave trade transform from fair barter to brutal plunder? How were black villages attacked and what inhumane treatment were suffered by slaves? How profitable were slave traders? When was the American slave trade outlawed as piracy? What kind of legislation, judicial efforts and international cooperation have the UK, the United States and other countries made to abolish the slave trade? What role did the British and American navies play in the American slave trade? Why did slave smuggling become more rampant after the slave trade was outlawed? What was the fate of the last slave trader? When did the slave trade come to an end? This book will answer them one by one.