Book cover for The Diligent : a voyage through the worlds of the slave trade

The Diligent : a voyage through the worlds of the slave trade

Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN13: 9780465028719
Format: Classic Audio
Description
<div>The slave trade is one of the best known yet least understood processes in our history. The popular image of traders in slave ships going to Africa and rounding up slaves as if they were cattle is not only historically inaccurate, it also disguises the fact that the slave trade was a highly organized Atlantic-wide system that required close collaboration at the highest levels of government in Europe, Africa, and the New World. Using the private journal of First Lieutenant Robert Durand, and supplementing it with a wealth of archival research, Yale historian Robert Harms re-creates in astonishing detail the voyage of the French slave ship The Diligent.We have histories of the slave trade, most recently Hugh Thomas's massive and authoritative The Slave Trade, but The Diligent is something entirely different: a deep bore into the economic, political, and moral worldviews of the participants on all sides of the trade, complete with a vivid dramatis personae. Nobody who reads this book will ever look at the slave trade in the same way again.</div>
Publisher Basic Books
ISBN10 0465028713
ISBN13 9780465028719
Number of Pages 496
File Size DL-260MB
Shelf Number MQ349
Grade Range
Ages 18 - 99
Format Audio Plus Download, EPub Download