Slavery at Sea: Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage
(Part of the The New Black Studies Series Series)
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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 known as the Middle Passage--comprised a violently regulated process foundational to the institution of bondage. Sowande' Mustakeem's groundbreaking study goes...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0252082028
ISBN13:9780252082023
Release Date:September 2016
Publisher:University of Illinois Press
Length:296 Pages
Weight:0.95 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"
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