This book is fascinating, and you should read it. The author follows the journey of a single slaver ship captured by the British and used as an anti-slavery patrol brig in the years that followed. In following its story, the author takes us through the global slave trade and the end of the imperial era as the balance of power shifted among the historically great European empires. She also guides the reader through the ways that the slave trade of the 17th - 19th centuries is still shaping global trade. I learned so much from this book and I could not put it down.