Saltwater slavery : a middle passage from Africa to American diaspora
Stephanie Smallwood offers a penetrating look at the process of enslavement from its African origins through the Middle Passage and into the American slave market. Her story in animated by deep research and gives us a startingly graphic experience of the slave trade from the vantage point of the slaves themselves
eBook, English, 2008
1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed View all formats and editions
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2008
History
1 online resource (273 pages)
9780674043770, 0674043774
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| Introduction | 1 | ||
| 1 The Gold Coast and the Atlantic Market in People | 9 | ||
| 2 Turning African Captives into Atlantic Commodities | 33 | ||
| 3 The Political Economy of the Slave Ship | 65 | ||
| 4 The Anomalous Intimacies of the Slave Cargo | 101 | ||
| 5 The Living Dead aboard the Slave Ship at Sea | 122 | ||
| 6 Turning Atlantic Commodities into American Slaves | 153 | ||
| 7 Life and Death in Diaspora | 182 | ||
| Notes | 209 | ||
| Acknowledgments | 257 | ||
| Index | 263 |
Originally published: 2007