Yale historian Harms ("Games Against Nature") explores the global scope of an odious industry by tracking the slave ship "Diligent, " which sailed from Vannes, France, in 1731. Using First Lt. Robert Durand's journal, Harms fleshes out the multinational web of trade relationships and transactions, both legal and illegal.
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Yale historian Harms ("Games Against Nature") explores the global scope of an odious industry by tracking the slave ship "Diligent, " which sailed from Vannes, France, in 1731. Using First Lt. Robert Durand's journal, Harms fleshes out the multinational web of trade relationships and transactions, both legal and illegal.
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First UK edition (hardback). 8vo (24cm by 16cm), xxx, 466pp. Text illustrations. Original burgundy cloth spne, burgundy boards, dustwrapper. The book and the dustwrapper are in very good condition. ISBN 1903985188.