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The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1440-1870

by Hugh Thomas

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"So boring that I'm tempted to poke my eyes out to get out of finishing, but I'm a sucker for punishment so I'd probably talk myself into finishing the audio version. It's actually full of useful information, just buried under a sea of tangentially related, dry facts about things as mundane as ship-naming patterns among slavetrading nations (followed by a long list of examples) but useful enough to be worth finishing." — Feb 17, 2026 10:17AM

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― Shannon Hale, The Goose Girl

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