| Description |
1 online resource (xxx, 466 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
ACLS Humanities E-Book
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| Contents |
List of illustrations -- Preface -- Illustrations credits -- Acknowledgments -- pt. 1. Matters of morality -- pt. 2. The financiers -- pt. 3. Outfitting a slaver -- pt. 4. Sailing south -- pt. 5. Cruising the African coast -- pt. 6. Whydah -- pt. 7. Assou -- pt. 8. Jakin -- pt. 9. Atlantic Islands -- pt. 10. The middle passage -- pt. 11. Martinique -- pt. 12. The return -- Afterword -- appendix A. Reconstructing the balance sheet of the Diligent -- appendix B. Abbreviations used in notes -- Notes -- Index |
| Summary |
Draws on the private journal of First Lieutenant Robert Durand and a variety of archival material to describe the voyage of the French slave ship, "The Diligent," and its role within the context of the slave trade as a whole |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (ages 417-451) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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committed to retain 20170930 20421231 HathiTrust https://www.hathitrust.org/shared_print_program{HathiTrust Shared Print commitment 2017} AEU |
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L.A. Times Book Prize Finalist History, 2002 |
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Lukas Prize Project History Prize, 2003 |
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Frederick Douglass Book Prize, 2002 |
| In |
ACLS Humanities E-Book. |
| Subject |
Diligent (Ship)
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| SUBJECT |
Diligent (Ship) fast |
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Diligent (Ship) nli |
| Subject |
Slave trade -- France -- History -- 18th century
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Slave trade -- Africa, West -- History -- 18th century
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Slavery.
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Slave trade
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Sklavenhandel
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Slavenhandel.
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Slave trade -- France -- History -- 18th century.
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Slave trade -- Africa, West -- History -- 18th century.
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Slave trade -- France -- History -- 18th century.
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Slave trade -- Africa, West -- History -- 18th century.
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Dilignet (Ship)
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West Africa
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France
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Westafrika
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Frankreich
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2001043237 |
| ISBN |
9780786724796 |
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078672479X |
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