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Originally Posted by dark_crystal
The Slave Ship: A Human History
by Marcus Rediker
In this widely praised history of an infamous institution, award-winning scholar Marcus Rediker shines a light into the darkest corners of the British and American slave ships of the eighteenth century. Drawing on thirty years of research in maritime archives, court records, diaries, and firsthand accounts, The Slave Ship is riveting and sobering in its revelations, reconstructing in chilling detail a world nearly lost to history: the "floating dungeons" at the forefront of the birth of African American culture. |
LQQKS like a good read, dark_crystal!
And, I'll keep that in mind about the end of the Tolstoy book, too.
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