Status Updates From The Slave Trade: History of...

Never in a million years did I dream I'd make it this far into the book but, despite all odds, I'm having a blast with the rest of it. Can't wait to share the rest of my thoughts!

After previously dying of boredom during the first couple hundred pages, the book has suddenly gone from "Bueller?... Bueller?..." to "here's the *tea,* sis 🍵" and I'm hooked! Human nature seems far darker than what I ever imagined... perhaps we're not as morally evolved as we all like to think now. Or maybe we're good as long as an asteroid doesn't hit and force us to relearn the lessons of yesteryear.

So boring that I'm tempted to poke my eyes out to get out of finishing, but I'm a sucker for punishment so I'd probably talk myself into finishing the audio version. It's actually full of useful information, just buried under a sea of tangentially related, dry facts about things as mundane as ship-naming patterns among slavetrading nations (followed by a long list of examples) but useful enough to be worth finishing.