Slavery at Sea : Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage /

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"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Mustakeem, Sowande' M., 1978- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2016.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Sklavenhandel
Handelsschiff
Gewalt
Women slaves.
Slaves > Health and hygiene.
Slave trade.
Slave ships.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Femmes esclaves > Atlantique, Region de l'.
Esclaves > Sante et hygiene > Atlantique, Ocean.
Esclaves > Violence envers > Atlantique, Ocean.
Esclaves > Commerce > Atlantique, Region de l'.
Negriers (Navires) > Atlantique, Ocean.
Women slaves > Atlantic Ocean Region.
Slaves > Health and hygiene > Atlantic Ocean.
Slaves > Violence against > Atlantic Ocean.
Slave trade > Atlantic Ocean Region.
Slave ships > Atlantic Ocean.
Atlantique (ocean)
Middle Passage
Atlantic Ocean Region.
Atlantic Ocean.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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