Johannes Postma was the author of the book entitled "The Atlantic Slave Trade" and was born in Zwagerbosch, Netherlands in 1935. He received his Ph.D. from the State of Michigan. He is now a professor at Minnesota State University and wrote “The Dutch in the Atlantic Slave Trade.” As well as co-editing “Riches from Atlantic Commerce: Dutch Transatlantic trade and Shipping”. The Atlantic slave trade was the largest and longest international voyage in human history. The Slave Trade, which took place as early as around 1440, provides a valuable account of the trade in slaves from various parts of the world. The author provides a regulation from West Africa to the Arab region along the southern parts of the Mediterranean Sea, to a lesser extent, talks about the Arab slave trade in East Africa, period of profound economic, social, political, cultural, religious depth and military change. I absolutely agree with how the authors attempted to explain the circumstances in which African slavery occurred in Africa through the dismay of the Middle Passage and the sale of slaves to America. A brief introduction to the slave trade occurred in 1502, the first African slaves were brought to Hispaniola. In 1888, Brazil became the last nation in the Western Hemisphere to outlaw slavery. For the nearly 400 years that followed, slavery played an important role in connecting the histories of Africa, North and South America, and Europe. Johannes Postma begins with an overview and detailed explanation of the 5 most important aspects of the Atlantic slave trade. First was slave capture and the Middle Passage, the identity of slaves and their lives after capture, the economics of the slave trade, the fight to end slavery, and the legacy of… half of paper. .....continued to import an unlimited supply of slaves every year. Although the slave trade had become illegal, slavery remained a reality in the British colonies. The author Johannes Postma obtained most of his information from newspapers, magazines and articles along with some personal documents, but not as much as he uses public sources. In my overall thoughts and ideas I think the author achieved his goal in making it clear that it is easy, without slaves the world would not be as it is now and we should appreciate it and unite instead as one of simply having the intention to do something or to complain about it. In my opinion the writer wrote the book with all the information he had because you can see it in his writing. He focuses on the small events and describes them in such detail, so yes, I think the author succeeded.