Saltwater Slavery

by Stephanie E. Smallwood

Overview

This bold, innovative book promises to radically alter our understanding of the Atlantic slave trade, and the depths of its horrors. Stephanie E. Smallwood offers a penetrating look at the process of enslavement from its African origins through the Middle Passage and into the American slave market. Saltwater Slavery is animated by deep research and gives us a graphic experience of the slave trade from the vantage point of the slaves themselves. The result is both a remarkable transatlantic view of the culture of enslavement, and a painful, intimate vision of the bloody, daily business of the slave trade.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780674043770
Publisher:	Harvard University Press
Publication date:	06/30/2009
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	288
Sales rank:	367,046
File size:	480 KB

About the Author

Stephanie E. Smallwood teaches History at the University of Washington, Seattle.

Table of Contents

Contents Introduction 1 The Gold Coast and the Atlantic Market in People 2 Turning African Captives into Atlantic Commodities 3 The Political Economy of the Slave Ship 4 The Anomalous Intimacies of the Slave Cargo 5 The Living Dead aboard the Slave Ship at Sea 6 Turning Atlantic Commodities into American Slaves 7 Life and Death in Diaspora Notes Acknowledgments Index