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Saltwater slavery : a middle passage from Africa to American diaspora

Title

Saltwater slavery : a middle passage from Africa to American diaspora / Stephanie E. Smallwood.

Author

Smallwood, Stephanie E.

Publication

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2007.

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Description

273 pages : illustrations, maps; 22 cm

Summary

"Smallwood's story gives us a graphic experience of the slave trade from the vantage point of the slaves themselves. Saltwater Slavery details how African people were ultimately transformed into commodities in the Atlantic market. Throughout, Smallwood examines how the people at the center of her story - merchant capitalists, sailors, and slaves - understood the brutal process that bound them together. The result is both a remarkable transatlantic view of the culture of enslavement, and a painful, intimate vision of the violent daily business of the slave trade."--Jacket.

Subjects

Slave trade
Slavery
Slave trade > Africa > History > 18th century
Slaves > Social conditions
Slavery > United States > History > 18th century
Slave trade > Africa > History > 17th century
Slave trade > United States > History > 17th century
Africa
Slaves > United States > Social conditions > 18th century
African diaspora
Africans > Migrations > History
1600-1799
History
Slavery > United States > History > 17th century
Slaves > United States > Social conditions > 17th century
United States
Slave trade > United States > History > 18th century
Black author

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-256) and index.

Contents

The Gold Coast and the Atlantic market in 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.

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