An excellent book, the companion to the WGBH series. I hesitate to call it a history book. It's certainly not a scholarly history book, but nevertheless full of interesting facts.
It does sensationalize and editorialize. Interspersed in the text are "dramatizations" or "short stories" illustrating the historical facts. Of course it's incredibly difficult to treat such a horrific practice as slavery in a totally objective manner.
What I particularly liked about the book were the tidbits of history. There are plenty of quotes and excerpts from primary sources, and it is well worth the price to experience those.
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