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John Kerrigan: Syntax of Slavery, 20 November 2025

Atlantic Cataclysm: Rethinking the Atlantic Slave Trades 
by David Eltis.
Cambridge, 442 pp., £30, February, 978 1 009 51897 0
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Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery 
by Ana LuciaAraujo.
Chicago, 640 pp., £32, October 2024, 978 0 226 77158 8
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The Zorg: A Tale of Greed, Murder and the Abolition of Slavery 
by Siddharth Kara.
Doubleday, 304 pp., £22, October, 978 1 5299 6432 5
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Zong! 
by m. nourbeSe philip.
Silver Press, 256 pp., £13.99, November 2023, 978 0 9957162 4 7
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... by the English and worked to death on West Indian plantations.In the early years of contact, as Ana LuciaAraujo notes in her informative, Iberian-angled book, the Portuguese sought a foothold on the West African coast while seizing slaves, but then access to the trade rather than possession of territory became the ...

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