Shannyn Martin’s Reviews > The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1440-1870 > Status Update
Shannyn Martin
is on page 512 of 912
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.
— Feb 28, 2026 02:28PM
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Shannyn Martin
is on page 315 of 912
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.
— Feb 17, 2026 10:17AM
