Slavery at sea : terror, sex, and sickness in the middle passage / Sowande' M. Mustakeem.
2016
HT1332 .M87 2016eb
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Title
Slavery at sea : terror, sex, and sickness in the middle passage / Sowande' M. Mustakeem.
ISBN
9780252098994 (electronic book)
0252098994 (electronic book)
9780252040559
0252040554
9780252082023
0252082028
0252098994 (electronic book)
9780252040559
0252040554
9780252082023
0252082028
Published
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2016.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xvii, 262 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Call Number
HT1332 .M87 2016eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
306.3620966
Summary
"Most times left solely within the confine of plantation narratives, slavery was far from a land-based phenomenon. This book reveals for the first time how it took critical shape at sea. Expanding the gaze even more deeply, the book centers how the oceanic transport of human cargoes--infamously known as the Middle Passage--comprised a violently regulated process foundational to the institution of bondage. Sowande' Mustakeem's groundbreaking study goes inside the Atlantic slave trade to explore the social conditions and human costs embedded in the world of maritime slavery. Mining ship logs, records and personal documents, Mustakeem teases out the social histories produced between those on traveling ships: slaves, captains, sailors, and surgeons. As she shows, crewmen manufactured captives through enforced dependency, relentless cycles of physical, psychological terror, and pain that led to the making--and unmaking--of enslaved Africans held and transported onboard slave ships. Mustakeem relates how this process, and related power struggles, played out not just for adult men, but also for women, children, teens, infants, nursing mothers, the elderly, diseased, ailing, and dying. Mustakeem offers provocative new insights into how gender, health, age, illness, and medical treatment intersected with trauma and violence transformed human beings into the world's most commercially sought commodity for over four centuries."--Publisher's description.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Series
New Black studies series.
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Table of Contents
Introduction: Middle passage studies and the birth of slavery at sea
Waves of calamity
Imagined bodies
Healthy desires, toxic realities
Blood memories
Battered bodies, enfeebled minds
The anatomy of suffering
A tide of bodies
Epilogue: The "frankenstein" of slavery: a meditation on memory.
Waves of calamity
Imagined bodies
Healthy desires, toxic realities
Blood memories
Battered bodies, enfeebled minds
The anatomy of suffering
A tide of bodies
Epilogue: The "frankenstein" of slavery: a meditation on memory.