The Diligent began her journey in Brittany in 1731, and Harms follows her along the African coast where her goods were traded for slaves, to Martin...
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Jan 20, 2012
Kf4yfa
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I had to read this book for a graduate course about precolonial Africa. I began to read it, thinking it was going to be another boring slow book. It wasn't that at all. It was rich, interesting, exciting, sad, and happy all at once. I probably forgot some emotion in that list.
One of the saddest parts was seeing how slaving was done. I wasn't ignorant before reading this book, but, as I will speak to later, it was brought to life somehow. The branding of humans like cattle, bad treatment, l More...
One of the saddest parts was seeing how slaving was done. I wasn't ignorant before reading this book, but, as I will speak to later, it was brought to life somehow. The branding of humans like cattle, bad treatment, l More...
Dec 31, 2011
Lauren
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Excellent account of the Atlantic slave trade, told not so much as a dry factual history but through the journey of the Diligent, an actual ship sent out on one occasion as a slave ship. Thanks to the DILIGENCE (hahahaha PUN) of first lieutenant Robert Durand, who kept meticulous journals both as part of his job and for his own purposes, Robert W. Harms was able to piece together a narrative of the ship's journey, interspersed with information available from other histories at the time (i.e. mer
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Feb 03, 2008
Raymonde
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A historical novel about the slave trade. The nitty grade of the business. Chillingly fascinating.
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