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The Logbooks (Hardcover)
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The Logbooks (Hardcover)
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List price R785
Loot Price R588
Discovery Miles 5 880
You Save R197 (25%)
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In 1757, a sailing ship owned by an affluent Connecticut merchant
sailed from New London to the tiny island of Bence in Sierra Leone,
West Africa, to take on fresh water and slaves. On board was the
owner's son, on a training voyage to learn the trade. The Logbooks
explores that voyage, and two others documented by that young man,
to unearth new realities of Connecticut's slave trade and question
how we could have forgotten this part of our past so completely.
When writer Anne Farrow discovered the significance of the logbooks
for the Africa and two other ships in 2004, her mother had been
recently diagnosed with dementia. As Farrow bore witness to the
impact of memory loss on her mother's sense of self, she also began
a journey into the world of the logbooks and the Atlantic slave
trade, eventually retracing part of the Africa's long-ago voyage to
Sierra Leone. As the narrative unfolds in The Logbooks, Farrow
explores the idea that if our history is incomplete, then
collectively we have forgotten who we are--a loss that is in some
ways similar to what her mother experienced. Her meditations are
well rounded with references to the work of writers, historians,
and psychologists. Forthright, well researched, and warmly
recounted, Farrow's writing is that of a novelist's, with an eye
for detail. Using a wealth of primary sources, she paints a vivid
picture of the eighteenth-century Connecticut slavers. The multiple
narratives combine in surprising and effective ways to make this an
intimate confrontation with the past, and a powerful meditation on
how slavery still affects us.
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