The Diligent: A Voyage through the Worlds Of The Slave Trade
Robert Harms
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.
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Año:
2002
Edición:
1. ed.
Editorial:
Basic Books (AZ)
Idioma:
english
Páginas:
504
ISBN 10:
1903985188
ISBN 13:
9781903985182
Archivo:
PDF, 41.56 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2002
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