Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
My library | Help | Advanced Book Search | Web History | Sign in

Books

The Diligent:

A Voyage Through the Worlds of the Slave Trade
Front Cover
9 Reviews
Basic Books, 2002 - History - 466 pages
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. Harms brings to life a world in which slavery was a commerce carried out without qualms. He shows the gruesome details of daily life aboard a slave ship, as well as 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 stead supply of labor for their countries' colonies. The Diligent is filled with rich stories that explain how the slave trade worked on all levels, from geopolitics to the rigging of ships.

What people are saying - Write a review

User ratings

5 stars
1
4 stars
2
3 stars
2
2 stars
2
1 star
0

Review: The Diligent: A Voyage through the Worlds of the Slave Trade

User Review  - Dejana Vuletić - Goodreads

At first I wasn't too sure about this book, but I was assigned to read it for a course here at school, so I put up with it all the way to the end. It was a great read and highly educational. Only ... Read full review

Review: The Diligent: A Voyage through the Worlds of the Slave Trade

User Review  - Michael Hattem - Goodreads

In this largely narrative history, Harms uses a ship diary to recreate the slave-trading voyage of the Diligent from France to West Africa to the French Caribbean. Harms contends that "there was no ... Read full review

All 9 reviews »

Related books

Other editions - View all

References from web pages

The 'Diligent': A Voyage through the Worlds of the Slave Trade
The Diligent: A Voyage Through the Worlds of the Slave Trade. New York: Basic Books, 2002. xxv + 466 pp. Illustrations, appendices, notes, index. ...
www.arlindo-correia.com/ 080403.html

JSTOR: The "Diligent": A Voyage through the Worlds of the Slave Trade
The "Diligent": A Voyage through the Worlds of the Slave Trade. Mwelwa C. Musambachime. The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. ...
links.jstor.org/ sici?sici=0361-7882(2002)35%3A2%2F3%3C552%3AT%22AVTT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Z

The Diligent: A Voyage through the Worlds of the Slave Trade by ...
Using the private journal of First Lieutenant Robert Durand, Robert Harms recreates the voyage of the French slave ship, 'The Diligent'
www.questia.com/ library/ book/ the-diligent-a-voyage-through-the-worlds-of-the-slave-trade-by-robert-harms.jsp

The Diligent: A Voyage through the Worlds of the Slave Trade ...
The Diligent: A Voyage through the Worlds of the Slave Trade - Robert Harms. The Diligent: A Voyage through the Worlds of the Slave T : Encyclopedia.com.
www.encyclopedia.com/ doc/ 1P3-684928151.html

Yale History Faculty : Robert Harms
The citation reads as follows: "Yale University historian Robert Harms' The Diligent: A Voyage through the Worlds of the Slave Trade is a chilling and ...
www.yale.edu/ history/ faculty/ materials/ harms-diligent.html

Out of Africa - New York Times
Out of Africa. By W. JEFFREY BOLSTER. THE DILIGENT A Voyage Through the Worlds of the Slave Trade. By Robert Harms. Illustrated. 466 pp. New York: ...
query.nytimes.com/ gst/ fullpage.html?res=9404E5DA1138F932A05750C0A9649C8B63& sec=& spon=& pagewanted=print

| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.1 | The ...
The Diligent: A Voyage through the Worlds of the Slave Trade. New York: Basic Books. 2002. Pp. xxx, 466. $30.00. By the 1730s, France had long since emerged ...
www.historycooperative.org/ journals/ ahr/ 109.1/ br_9.html

2003 Lukas Prize Winners - Columbia University Graduate School of ...
Entry title: The Diligent: A Voyage Through the Worlds of the Slave Trade. Awarded: 2003, The Mark Lynton History Prize ...
www.journalism.columbia.edu/ cs/ ContentServer/ jrn/ 1175373201343/ page/ 1175373361393/ simplepage.htm

Sylviane Anna Diouf - Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship ...
Robert Harms, author of The Diligent: A Voyage through the Worlds of the Slave Trade This remarkable story of how a group of captured Africans were torn ...
www.sylvianediouf.com/ work1.htm

Afriterra, The Cartographic Free Library
One useful classroom application would be to pair maps with specific texts, such as Robert Harms’ The Diligent: A Voyage Through the Worlds of the Slave ...
chnm.gmu.edu/ worldhistorysources/ r/ 255/ whm.html

About the author (2002)

Robert Harms is Professor of History at Yale University. He is the author of two books about Africa, River of Wealth, River of Sorrow and Games Against Nature. He lives in Guilford, Connecticut.

Bibliographic information