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

• Autore: Mustakeem Sowande' M. <1978->
• Pubblicazione: Urbana : , : University of Illinois Press, , 2016
• Edizione: First edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Disciplina: 306.3620966
• Soggetto topico: 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
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Slavery at Sea
• ISBN: 0252098994; 9780252098994; 0252082028; 9780252082023; 0252040554; 9780252040559
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910151612003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: New Black studies series.