| The Diligent: A Voyage Through the Worlds of the Slave Trade | |
| Author: | Robert W. Harms |
| Published: | 2002 |
| Publisher: | Basic Books |
| Pages: | 496 pp. |
| Isbn: | 9780465028726 |
The Diligent: A Voyage Through the Worlds of the Slave Trade is a 2002 book by Robert W. Harms in which he offers a history of slave trade from 1731 onward.[1] It is a winner of the Frederick Douglass Prize, the J. Russell Major Prize, the Mark Lynton History Prize and the Gustav Ranis International Book Prize.