Robert W. Harms
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The Diligent: A Voyage Through the Worlds of the Slave Trade
Robert W. Harms
Based on an officer’s diary, a vivid and unprecedented account of the voyage of one slave trading ship—The Diligent—and the worlds through which it sailed.
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,…
