The Diligent: Worlds of the Slave Trade

by Robert W. Harms

Book Overview

The groundbreaking history of the Atlantic slave trade, winner of the Mark Lynton History Prize, the Frederick Douglass Book Prize, and the J. Russell Major Prize.
In The Diligent, acclaimed historian Robert Harms reveals the complex workings of the slave trade by drawing on the private journal of First Lieutenant Robert Durand to recreate the macabre journey of a French slave ship.
The Diligent began her journey...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0465028721
• ISBN13: 9780465028726
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"