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The Logbooks: Connecticut’s Slave Ships and Human Memory (The Driftless Connecticut Series & Garnet Books) by Farrow, Anne; is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Logbooks: Connecticut’s Slave Ships and Human Memory (The Driftless Connecticut Series & Garnet Books) about?

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. -- P

Who reads The Logbooks: Connecticut’s Slave Ships and Human Memory (The Driftless Connecticut Series & Garnet Books)?

Author

Farrow, Anne;

Publisher

Wesleyan University Press

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780819576446

Category

history

Subjects

History, American Studies, Humanities

Rating

4 / 5 (30 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14