The Logbooks : Connecticut's Slave Ships and Human Memory.

Cover -- The Logbooks -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- ONE: RECOVERING THE STORY -- Cleared for Africa -- Shadows on the Wall -- Creating a Record -- "How Did You Find Me?" -- TWO: THE HAUNTED LAND -- Meeting the Slave Traders -- Another Century, Not My Own -- The Past in Dreams -- History for an Abandoned Place -- The Screaming Man -- The Story of a Stone -- The Slaughterhouse -- THREE: TROUBLE IN MIND -- A Book with Many Bookmarks -- A Platform for Memory -- The Pain That Survives -- The Fragile Power -- History That Won't End -- FOUR: A HISTORY THAT DOESN'T "FIT" -- Back to Africa -- To Live in Peril on the Sea -- Not a Word but a World -- The Slave Trade's Men in Full -- FIVE: SEPARATIONS -- A Visit to Madina -- This Far, and No Further -- Legacy -- Lost and Found -- Our Choice Is the Truth or Nothing -- Afterword -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Reading Guide -- Color photographs follow page.

Three long-neglected logbooks from Connecticut's slave trade raise questions about memory and collective forgetting.

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