The Diligent
Subtitle: A Voyage through the Worlds of the Slave Trade
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: January 7, 2003
Language: eng
Number of pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9780465028726
First sentence: S THE FIRST RAYS of the sun struck the Brittany coast of France on May 31, 1731, the crew of the Diligent was already hard at work preparing the ship for its departure.