Toby Green on the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

I first read Toby Green's "The Rise of the Transatlantic Slave Trade in Western Africa: 1300-1589" a while back, but I love how Green emphasizes African agency and history that shaped creolization, trade, and slavery in the broader Atlantic World context.  He emphases internal African diasporas that linked North Africa with West Africa and global markets, which paved the way for international trade with Europeans, the slave trade, and cultural mixing that facilitated the exchange of people, goods, and culture that shaped the Atlantic World. Listen to podcasts with Toby Green here and here.