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Saltwater Slavery - A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora (Paperback)
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Saltwater Slavery - A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora (Paperback)
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This bold, innovative book promises to radically alter our
understanding of the Atlantic slave trade, and the depths of its
horrors. Stephanie E. Smallwood offers a penetrating look at the
process of enslavement from its African origins through the Middle
Passage and into the American slave market.Smallwood's story is
animated by deep research and gives us a startlingly graphic
experience of the slave trade from the vantage point of the slaves
themselves. Ultimately, "Saltwater Slavery" details how African
people were transformed into Atlantic commodities in the process.
She begins her narrative on the shores of seventeenth-century
Africa, tracing how the trade in human bodies came to define the
life of the Gold Coast. Smallwood takes us into the ports and stone
fortresses where African captives were held and prepared, and then
through the Middle Passage itself. In extraordinary detail, we
witness these men and women cramped in the holds of ships, gasping
for air, and trying to make sense of an unfamiliar sea and an
unimaginable destination. Arriving in America, we see how these new
migrants enter the market for laboring bodies, and struggle to
reconstruct their social identities in the New World.Throughout,
Smallwood examines how the people at the center of her
story-merchant capitalists, sailors, and slaves-made sense of the
bloody process in which they were joined. The result is both a
remarkable transatlantic view of the culture of enslavement, and a
painful, intimate vision of the bloody, daily business of the slave
trade.
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