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From: Cindy Kilgore <>
Subject: Slave book
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 23:32:31 +0000
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Hi Codfish - glad to have you back with us...........
found it in one of those offbeat bookshops called Barnes and Nobles.
need snow?
Cindy

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>
> Hi Cin
>
> Sorry to hear about your love's injury. The book on the Diligent sounds
> great ....where did you buy it?
>
> Cod
>
> C.M. Codrington("american version # 1952)
> Editor: Carib GenWeb "Historic Antigua and Barbuda" web-site
> Co-Administrator:
> Member: Barbados Museum Historical Society,
> Museum of Antigua and Barbuda Historical and Archaeological Society.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cindy Kilgore [mailto:]
> Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2002 6:20 AM
> To:
> Subject: slave book
>
> Hi Listbuds,
> Thought I'd take this time while everybody's hibernating to tell you of
> a book I found at Barnes & Nobles at Christmastime and 1) didn't buy cuz
> I was hoping Santa might plop it under my bird-of-paradise tree and 2)
> well, slavery just didn't seem to appropriate at Christmas (I'm sure
> Santa thought the same since he didn't deliver). But nonetheless, I had
> it by the turn of the new year.
> The Diligent: A Voyage Through the Worlds of the Slave Trade by Robert
> Harms, Basic Books, 2002. Fantastic read! A manuscript appeared at Yale
> University written by the 1st Lt. on a French slaver - 1731 - the
> author, a historian at Yale, traces the moves of this slave vessel and
> doesn't miss anything along the journey. Incredible read as the author
> is also an excellent storyteller and instead of making you want to cry
> (so far, they're just hitting the Middle Passage in my reading) or rant
> and rave, you are simply sucked into endless hours paralyzed on the
> sofa. Chapters are: Matters of Mortality, the Financiers, Outfitting a
> Slaver, Sailing South, Cruising the African Coast, Whydah, Assou, Jakin,
> Atlantic Islands, The Middle Passage, Martinique, and The Return. A lot
> of names appear. I can't recommend it high enough for anyone interested
> in Caribbean history and genealogy.
> Gaining wind,
> Cindy

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