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Thinking about how obvious it is that the US is built on slavery, but I haven’t considered how the colonies’ independence from Britain is also innately intertwined with the economics of slavery. Britain was making BANK off of sugar produced by slave colonies and the slave trade as a whole, so the loss of exports from the colonies was basically inconsequential. They literally could give up.

Had to after 45's vile racist stunt- all in for Black History Month this year.

Documents "boundless inhumanity".

Well, well, well. The evangelical preacher who wrote "Amazing Grace" was a slave trader.

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Very interesting so far

Really enjoying it

*hides my suspiciously Dutch-shaped ancestry*

I’m listening to the audiobook and the narrator is PHENOMENAL!

Holy fuck this is sickening

Infuriating and devastating. This should be required reading

This book has already given me so many emotions. It all boils down to: how can humans do this to other humans?

“To be clear, slave ship insurance underwriters were an integral part of a system that unleashed enormous suffering on millions of Africans across centuries, but in this case, their coldly calculated financial interests were aligned with the small number of people in England who sought to abolish slavery.”

“The whole of this business, I think now… is to enable me to bid farewell to the present scene with the satisfaction of not having lived in vain and of having done something towards the improvement of our common nature and this at no little expense of time and reputation.” - James Ramsey, abolitionist author, doctor and preacher, July 1789

So well written but absolutely devastating to read! I think anyone who has ever had a single thought in their head that slavery wasn’t that bad should be forced to read this book… 😭 Maybe need to skip this on my lunch break in the future… If you need me I’ll be silently sobbing in the corner.

finally a shorter book for a change!

I can’t believe these things happened on this earth

First lines | "PROLOGUE // If you have heard anything about this story, it is probably that there was an eighteenth-century British slave ship named the Zong, and that its captain, Luke Collingwood, ordered the murder of scores of Africans on board."

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tough read

Memories evoked of Amistad

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I think I’m just too dumb for these types of books. There’s always so many names and places and terms 😭😭 I’m so easily confused.

I can’t escape this audiobook narrator 😂😂

I KNEW this historical event sounded familiar. This is the ship from the Belle film!

This is not my usual book but I randomly decided to pick it up and I’m almost finished

Really enjoying how the history is being laid out.

back on my audiobooks

Holy shit

Man, this book is tough.