African Slave Trade PreColonial History 14501850 Author:B. Davidson Basil Davidson states that by examining three important areas of Africa in the history of slavery 'against a general background of their time and circumstance' he was taking 'a fresh look at the oversea slave trade, the steady year-by-year export of African labour to the West Indies and the Americas that marked the greatest and most fateful migr... more »ation - forced migration - in the history of man.' BR> North America: Times/Random House« less