This was interesting, informative, and sad, going into far more depth about the lives of enslaved people than I had expected.The extrapolation from the simple sack to what its owners' lives must have been like felt a bit forced at times, although the author does go into some depth explaining the paucity of evidence about individual enslaved people because they were not seen as important enough to document in depth, and because they owned so little. I found this quite hard going, but I'm glad to have read it.