- Diligent (Ship), History, Slave trade, Slavenhandel
"In The Diligent, historian Robert Harms uses an entirely new approach to uncover the complex workings of the slave trade. Drawing upon the recently discovered private journal of First Lieutenant Robert Durand, Harms recreates the macabre journey of a French slave ship and interweaves it with the remarkable dramas of its slave route.
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Grave, earnest, plot-driven and bleak.
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- earnestironic
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- Author
- Robert W. Harms, Robert Harms
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 466
- Publisher
- Perseus Press, Basic Books
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780465028719
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