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100 1 $aHarms, Robert,$d1946-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81012845
245 14 $aThe Diligent :$ba voyage through the worlds of the slave trade /$cRobert Harms.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bBasic Books,$c[2002], ©2002.
300 $axxx, 466 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 417-451) and index.
520 1 $a"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.
520 8 $aThe result is an astonishingly detailed look at the voyage of a single slave ship that also sheds new light on the collaborative nature of the slave trade and how it shaped morality, politics and economics on three continents.".
520 8 $a"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. Robert Durand was an ambitious 26 year old meticulously studying the workings of a slave ship in the hope of one day becoming a captain.
520 8 $aHis journal gives a dispassionate account of day to day life on a ship navigating an extraordinary time in history, a time when momentous changes were transforming the Atlantic world. In Europe, the mercantilist economies of the seventeenth century were grudgingly giving way to the private enterprise merchant capitalism of the eighteenth century. In West Africa, the small trading states of the Guinea coast were being overrun by new militarized African empires financed by profits from the slave trade.
520 8 $aAnd in the Caribbean, the introduction of new plantation crops was creating an unprecedented demand for slave labor.".
520 8 $a"The gruesome details of daily life aboard a slave ship defy contemporary imagination, but Durand records his fifteen-month journey with unflinching detail. Harms has supplemented Durand's journal with a wealth of archival research that brings to life a world in which slavery was a commerce carried out without qualms.
520 8 $aHe shows 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 steady supply of slave labor for their countries' colonies. On the slave ships themselves, captains chose between competing schools of thought on how best to avert slave rebellions, exercise and feed captives in irons and reduce mortality rates while packing in as much human cargo as their ships could hold. Pirates trolled the sea looking for slaves, and ship officers routinely cheated their outfitters to profit from the lucrative human trade.
520 8 $aThe Diligent is filled with rich and riveting stories that explain how the slave trade worked on all levels, from geopolitics to the rigging of ships."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aSlave trade$zFrance$xHistory$y18th century.
650 0 $aSlave trade$zAfrica, West$xHistory$y18th century.
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