Offers a thorough and compelling history of slavery in the Americas and paves the way for future scholarship on the transformation of cultural practices, language, and familial ties associated with the intercolonial trafficking of enslaved African workers in the Americas.
Journal of African American History Fills a major gap in the literature....The standard for many years to come.
Journal of Southern History ... Read moreA new and arresting perspective on the British slave trade in the early modern world. -Choice Important scholarly insights to our collective understanding of the Atlantic slave trade, and, more broadly, Atlantic slavery, continue to arrive with increasing frequency every year. Few, however, are as likely to provide such major quantitative contributions and qualitative insights as Greg O'Malley's exemplary first book, Final Passages.
Journal of British Studies Will be the definitive account of intercolonial slave trading for many years to come, and it is a major . . . contribution to our understanding of the politics and economics of slavery.
English Historical Review Groundbreaking...enhances the scope and complexity of our understanding of the slave trade.
New England Quarterly A refreshing and authoritative history of the English slave trade.
Journal of American History With the publication of Final Passages, the historiography of the intra-American slave trade has made a giant leap forward.
William and Mary Quarterly A useful book for any scholar who studies colonial British North America.
Business History Review Sure to be required reading for students and scholars of the slave trade. . . . The many strengths of the book are on full display as the text guides the reader through the complex machinations that drew slaves to busy colonial ports like Charleston and backwater colonies like North Carolina.
Canadian Journal of History It is rare for a first book to make such an important contribution to a field of such depth and maturity as the study of the slave trade. Scholars will be working through the broader implications here for some time to come.
Journal of Early American History In this rigorously-argued and well-sourced volume, Gregory E. O'Malley establishes himself as being on the cutting edge of scholarship with regards to the complexities of the transatlantic slave trade.
American Historical Review An exceptional work that will surely encourage other historians to explore the extensive intra-American slave trade conducted by French, Dutch, Spanish, and American merchants.
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