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How did a simple commodity, once the prized monopoly of kings and princes, become an essential ingredient in the lives of millions, before mutating yet again into the cause of a global health epidemic?

In thisnew and original interpretation of the barbaric world of slavery and of its historic end in April 1807, the parallellives of three individuals caught up in the enterprise of human enslavementa trader, an owner, and a slaveare examined. John Newton (17251807), best known as the author of "Amazing Grace," was a slave captain who marshaled his human cargoes with a brutality that he looked back on with shame and contrition. Thomas Thistlewood (172186) lived his life in a remote corner of western Jamaica and his unique diary provides some of the most revealing images of a slave owner s life...