Robert Harms is Professor of History at Yale University. He is the author of two books about Africa, River of Wealth, River of Sorrow an d Games Against Nature. He lives in Guilford, Conn ecticut.
"A beautifully written, meticulously researched, compelling
narrative that reveals the greed, brutality and inhumanity of the
Atlantic slave trade."--The News and Observer
"A compelling and illuminating narrative ...For a sense of what the
trade involved and how it was made possible, Harms' story is
unrivaled."--Los Angeles Times Book Review
"Africanist Robert Harms provides the most vivid and useful
description of a typical slave trading voyage ever written.
Imaginatively constructed, deftly, and engagingly written, a model
of research, the book takes the reader deep into the tragic heart
of the eighteenth-century Atlantic."--H Net Book Review
"Harms has brought to this undertaking decades of training, deep
knowledge of his subject and a historian's fascination with the
strangeness of the past. He has produced an original book that will
endure... As a comprehensive and multilayered appreciation of that
trade, The Diligent has no peer."--New York Times Book Review
"History as it should be written."--Library Journal
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