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Record Nr.

UNINA9910151612003321

Autore

Mustakeem Sowande' M. <1978->

Titolo

Slavery at Sea : Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage / / Sowande' M. Mustakeem

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana : , : University of Illinois Press, , 2016

ISBN

0252098994

9780252098994

0252082028

9780252082023

0252040554

9780252040559

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

The new Black studies series

Disciplina

306.3620966

Soggetti

Enslaved women - Atlantic Ocean Region

Enslaved persons - Health and hygiene - Atlantic Ocean

Enslaved persons - Violence against - Atlantic Ocean

Slave trade - Atlantic Ocean Region

Slave ships - Atlantic Ocean

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2016.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 mediation on memory.

Sommario/riassunto

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.