A little too clinical

This book covers a topic, I feel that was better covered by "The Slave Ship" by Marcus Rediker. It borrows a certain amount from that book, but rather than telling the story, it goes a little too into the concept of cynical business, which is not too my liking. I feel it would have been better presented if it contained less of the authors bias, and more as incorporating the human side of the story, from all of those from the heartless investors, who blindly felt that a slave in a Godly environment was better off than a free person in a savage world, (and it didn't help that they made a lot of money), to the often brutal life of the captain whose job life and reputation depended on a safe passage across an unpredictable ocean, to the often indentured, or otherwise rough and ready crews, who fared better than slaves, but not by much, and to the sad and unfortunate slaves, ripped from their homeland to be sold as laborers in a money making system of capitalism that benefited so few, but became the engine to pay for wars and empires that left so many countless victims.

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