Tom Womack, The Dutch Naval Air Force Against Japan. The Defense of the Netherlands East Indies, 1941-1942 (Robert L. Shoop)

the horrors of the trade in humans, the profits reaped, the company fortunes made, and the mansions built.For anyone who thinks of the slave trade as a distant event from British shores, this book shatters the illusion.The direct benefit is traced right back to the docksides, bank vaults, factories, and the front steps of the great homes of Liverpool.The book presents three maps and 68 images (many in colour) of the slave merchants, seamen, places, ships, and victims of the slave trade.Though not noted on the abbreviation page, those attributed to NML are from the National Museums Liverpool, providing the reader with a glimpse of the International Slavery Museum's Liverpool exhibit.It is an impressive array of images that help to give life to this horrific story.Just the pictures in this volume, alone, could provide the visual stimulus for a teacher to capture the minds of their students as they broach the topic.The bibliography is thorough, with the archival sources focused, naturally, on Liverpool.The index is workable.While written for the general public, this book will be of use to academics studying the slave trade's influence on economic and urban development in slave trading nations.As noted above, it would be a valuable resource for teachers engaged in introducing the story of slavery to their students

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