A new generation of scholars looks at the history of slavery in the
New World. These essays, by some of the most prominent young
historians writing about slavery, fill gaps in our understanding of
such subjects as enslaved women, the Atlantic and internal slave
trades, the relationships between Indians and enslaved people, and
enslavement in Latin America. Inventive and stimulating, the essays
model the blending of methods and styles that characterizes the new
cultural history of slavery's social, political, and economic
systems. Several common themes emerge from the volume, among them
the correlation between race and identity; the meanings contained
in family and community relationships, gender, and life's
commonplaces; and the literary and legal representations that
legitimated and codified enslavement and difference. Such themes
signal methodological and pedagogical shifts in the field away from
master/slave or white/black race relations models toward
perspectives that give us deeper access to the mental universe of
slavery. Topics of the essays range widely, including European
ideas about the reproductive capacities of African women and the
process of making race in the Atlantic world, the contradictions of
the assimilation of enslaved African American runaways into Creek
communities, the consequences and meanings of death to Jamaican
slaves and slave owners, and the tensions between midwifery as a
black cultural and spiritual institution and slave midwives as
health workers in a plantation economy. Opening our eyes to the
personal, the contentious, and even the intimate, these essays call
for a history in which both enslaved and enslavers acted in a vast
human drama of bondage and freedom, salvation and damnation, wealth
and exploitation.
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