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Slavery at sea : terror, sex, and sickness in the Middle Passage / Sowande' M. Mustakeem.
Author
Mustakeem, Sowande' M., 1978-
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Language
English
Published/Created
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2016]
Description
xvii, 262 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.
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Firestone Library - Stacks
HT1332 .M87 2016
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Subject(s)
Slave ships
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Atlantic Ocean
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Slave trade
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Atlantic Ocean Region
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Enslaved persons
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Violence against
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Atlantic Ocean
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Enslaved persons
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Health and hygiene
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Atlantic Ocean
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Enslaved women
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Atlantic Ocean Region
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Middle Passage
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Series
New Black studies series
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The new Black studies series
Summary note
"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 (pages 227-247) and index.
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.
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ISBN
9780252040559 ((hbk. ; : alk. paper))
0252040554 ((hbk. ; : alk. paper))
9780252082023 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
0252082028 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
LCCN
2016020650
OCLC
946905310
Other standard number
99971297823
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