Summary Of Africa And Africans In The Making Of The Atlantic World

Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World is an outstanding book. Thornton's talked stated a lot of great facts, but he also managed to get into great details on what he was trying to persuade the readers about his story. Thornton starts each chapter talking about issue dealing with slavery and how it was brought to America. He talks about things such as the debate that people have about slavery, and etc. He also talks about his own personal opinions as well.
Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic is split into two sections, there is a Part one and a Part two. Part one have four different chapters that talks about African’s and their society and how the trade process started between the Africans and the Europeans. …show more content…
In chapter three it talks about the African and their society and it also compares the two societies between the European society and the African society. And the last chapter of part I which is chapter four starts to go into more detail about enslavement, he talks about how the African actually were not really forced into slavery and how their own kind really gave them up to the Europeans in exchange for goods and how the Africans were actually the decision makers and under control of the whole slave …show more content…
I think he is very convincing with his these because once you read the thesis and continue to read Part I you will have a clear understanding on how everything with the Slave trade happened and how Africans became slaves. When Thornton was writing this book I do feel like he had an audience, his audience were the people that think they actually know how the slave trade process started but really there is more to the story then other’s think. In my opinion, this book is worth reading because I feel like it can educate a lot of people who thought they had a clear vision on what slavery really was or what happened during slavery time and how the Africans were brought to America. In conclusion, I would honestly recommend this book and I personally enjoyed reading this book because to me slavery is a very important topic. I feel like if you do not know the history behind slavery and how it all begin then you are really not learning history at all. Although sometimes talking about slavery for me can be a difficult topic for me because I myself am African American so it is hard for me to picture what my own kind had to go through, it is always very interesting to know the history behind all of it and this book really gets into great details so that you can have a clear understanding on how slavery started and the good thing about this book is