The Diligent: A Voyage Through the Worlds of the Slave Trade
The Diligent began her journey in Brittany in 1731, and Harms follows her along the African coast where her goods were traded for slaves, to Martinique where her captives were sold to work on sugar plantations. Harms brings to life a world in which slavery was a commerce carried out without qualms. He shows the gruesome details of daily life aboard a slave ship, as well as French merchants wrangling with their government for the right to traffic in slaves, African kings waging epic wars for control of European slave trading posts, and representatives of European governments negotiating the complicated politics of the Guinea coast to ensure a stead supply of labor for their countries' colonies. The Diligent is filled with rich stories that explain how the slave trade worked on all levels, from geopolitics to the rigging of ships.
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Review: The Diligent: A Voyage Through the Worlds Of The Slave Trade
User Review - GoodreadsAn expanded travel log based off the journal of Robert Durand, first mate of the french slaver Diligent in 1731. Read full review
Review: The Diligent: A Voyage Through the Worlds Of The Slave Trade
User Review - GoodreadsThe Diligent is a micro-history of the Atlantic slave trade in the eighteenth century, seen through the eyes of First Lieutenant Robert Durand on his voyage aboard a slave ship from Europe to West ... Read full review
Contents
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The Financiers
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29 |
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Outfitting a Slaver
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63 |
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Sailing South
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87 |
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Cruising the African Coast
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119 |
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Whydah
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149 |
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Assou
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197 |
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Jakin
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225 |
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Atlantic Islands
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265 |
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The Middle Passage
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293 |
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Page xvii - Dieu! cried I to myself, do all the wastes, the deserts, the heath, ling, furze, broom, and bog that I have passed for three hundred miles lead to this spectacle ? What a miracle, that all this splendour and wealth of the cities in France should be so unconnected with the country...
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Diligent: A Voyage Through the Worlds of the Slave Trade |
| Author | Robert W. Harms |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Basic Books, 2002 |
| ISBN | 0465028721, 9780465028726 |
| Length | 466 pages |
| Subjects |
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History / General History / World Social Science / Slavery |
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