Book ID: CBB080378131

Slavery at Sea: Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage (2016)

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Mustakeem, Sowande M. (Author)


University of Illinois Press


Publication Date: 2016
Physical Details: 296 pp.
Language: English

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 widely, the book centers on how the oceanic transport of human cargoes--known as the infamous 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. As she does so, she offers provocative new insights into how gender, health, age, illness, and medical treatment intersected with trauma and violence transformed human beings into the most commercially sought commodity for over four centuries.

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Authors & Contributors
Turner, Sasha
Mary Jane Logan McCallum
Berry, Chelsea
Griffith, Lisa Marie
George Michael La Rue
Kathryn Olivarius
Concepts
Slavery and slaves
Medicine and race
Medicine
Death
Sea travel
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Time Periods
19th century
21st century
18th century
17th century
Early modern
20th century, late
Places
United States
Southern states (U.S.)
Great Britain
Africa
Atlantic world
Dublin (Ireland)
Institutions
Great Britain. Royal Navy
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