Think of maritime slavery, and the notorious Middle Passage - the
unprecedented, forced migration of enslaved Africans across the
Atlantic - readily comes to mind. This so-called 'middle leg' -
from Africa to the Americas - of a supposed trading triangle
linking Europe, Africa, and the Americas naturally captures
attention for its scale and horror. After all, the Middle Passage
was the largest forced, transoceanic migration in world history,
now thought to have involved about 12.5 million African captives
shipped in about 44,000 voyages that sailed between 1514 and 1866.
No other coerced migration matches it for sheer size or
gruesomeness. Maritime slavery is not, however, just about the
movement of people as commodities, but rather, the involvement of
all sorts of people, including slaves, in the transportation of
those human commodities. Maritime slavery is thus not only about
objects being moved but also about subjects doing the moving. Some
slaves were actors, not simply the acted-upon. They were pilots,
sailors, canoemen, divers, linguists, porters, stewards, cooks, and
cabin boys, not forgetting all the ancillary workers in ports such
as stevedores, warehousemen, labourers, washerwomen, tavern
workers, and prostitutes. Maritime Slavery reflects this current
interest in maritime spaces, and covers all the major Oceans and
Seas. This book was originally published as a special issue of
Slavery and Abolition.
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