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The
Diligent: A Voyage Through the African Slave Trade
by Robert Harms
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This history is of one voyage of one French ship in
the 18th century slave trade. Based upon the journal
of First Lieutenant Robert Durand, it offers new insight
into the slave trade.
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King
Leopold's Ghost
by Adam Rochschild
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the
story of how Belgian King Leopold II made the Congo
his own private reserve and inflicted appalling conditions
on the Africans - an excellent, compelling book
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A
History of South Africa
by Leonard Thompson
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excellent resource particularly on the early history
of South Africa, before the domination of Europeans
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We
Wish to Inform you that Tomorrow we will be Killed
with our Families: Stories From Rwanda
by Philip Gourevitch
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National
Book Critics Circle Award Gourevitch gives us a mesmerizing
and disturbing account of the 1994 Rwandan genocide
and it's aftermath.
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