| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.1

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Comparative/World

Robert Harms. 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 as one of the leading European nations involved in transporting captive Africans to colonies in the Americas, where they provided enslaved labor for the production of colonial goods. One regional destination of the slave traders was the Caribbean, where the island of Martinique was a valuable French sugar colony. Ultimately, the French slave trade led to the creation of strong transatlantic links among France, the Atlantic coasts of Africa, and France's colonies in the Americas, three broad sets of worlds. Robert Harms offers a probing contextualization of the French slave trade of the early eighteenth century by exploring the interconnected worlds of the Atlantic basin as they were reflected in the trading voyage of a French slave ship, the Diligent, in 1731–1732. Hundreds of slave trading ships belonging to Portuguese, English, Dutch, and French investors crossed the Atlantic Ocean from the Atlantic African coasts to the plantation colonies of the Americas by the 1730s, so the voyage of the Diligent, a converted grain ship, although unique in some ways, also reflects much about Atlantic slave trading in general at this time. The volume also throws much light on the numerous interconnected segments of a complete slaving voyage.

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