@histodons This, for example, is Honfleur, a little port close to Le Havre on the other side of the Seine estuary. It’s a nice old touristy place, although one can see it used to be a rich port. The local part of the exhibition on #slavery where I got the book details the involvement in the #slave trade: 140 ships in the “long” 18th century before abolition 1822, 50 000 African men and women enslaved, shackled and transported. From one small port in Normandy of then ~9 000 population.