MixedThe Times Literary Supplement (UK)Green’s prose races to catch up with the information packed inside each sentence and paragraph. He writes that he had enough resources to publish at least three books, and by the end I felt as though I had read that many. So many points of data are presented that it is easy to lose sight of the arc of the argument. It is this compilation, its disciplinary drift, that makes the book uniquely valuable, but also deeply difficult to conceive in terms of traditional historical causation ... This book represents an extraordinary and admirable archival and bibliographic undertaking. In addition to well-known studies of the slave trade, Toby Green cites lesser-known and Africa-derived books and articles, giving equal value to oral and written archives.
