Prodigious Enigma
Catherine Hall, 7 July 2022
Who’s Black and Why? A Hidden Chapter from the 18th-Century Invention of Race
edited by Henry Louis Gates and Andrew S. Curran.
Harvard, 303 pp., £23.95, March,978 0 674 24426 9 Show More
edited by Henry Louis Gates and Andrew S. Curran.
Harvard, 303 pp., £23.95, March,
“... The port was renovated to make room for the large ships travelling to Martinique, Guadeloupe and St Domingue; work began on what was to be the magnificent Place de la Bourse on the Garonne and on the new merchant houses and shops for the luxury trades. Slave ships stopped at the port en route to West Africa: Bordeaux was one of the major anchorages along the ... ”
