Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora
by Smallwood, Stephanie E.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2008-09-15
Publisher(s): Harvard Univ Pr
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Summary
In this stark depiction of slaves and their utter alienation from the most basic norms of everyday life, ' Smallwood simultaneously delivers a lucid popular history and expands scholarly understanding of slavery with a thorough, clear-eyed look at the dreaded Middle Passage and how it shaped the slave experience."Publishers Weekly"
Table of Contents
| Introduction | |
| The Gold Coast and the Atlantic Market for People | |
| Turning African Captives into Atlantic Commodities | |
| The Political Economy of the Slave Ship | |
| The Anomalous Intimacies of the Slave Cargo | |
| The Living Dead aboard the Slave Ship at Sea | |
| Turning Atlantic Commodities into American Slaves | |
| Life and Death in Diaspora | |
| Conclusion: Saltwater Slavery in Memory and History | |
| Notes | |
| Index | |
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