9780252082023-0252082028-Slavery at Sea: Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage (New Black Studies Series)

Slavery at Sea: Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage (New Black Studies Series)

ISBN-13: 9780252082023
ISBN-10: 0252082028
Edition: Illustrated
Author: Sowande M Mustakeem
Publication date: 2016
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Format: Paperback 296 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780252082023
ISBN-10: 0252082028
Edition: Illustrated
Author: Sowande M Mustakeem
Publication date: 2016
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Format: Paperback 296 pages

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Slavery at Sea: Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage (New Black Studies Series) (ISBN-13: 9780252082023 and ISBN-10: 0252082028), written by authors Sowande M Mustakeem, was published by University of Illinois Press in 2016. With an overall rating of 3.5 stars, it's a notable title among other United States History (Women in History, World History, Maritime History & Piracy) books. You can easily purchase or rent Slavery at Sea: Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage (New Black Studies Series) (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used United States History books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $2.3.

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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. Mining ship logs, records and personal documents, Mustakeem teases out the social histories produced between those on traveling ships: slaves, captains, sailors, and surgeons. As she shows, crewmen manufactured captives through enforced dependency, relentless cycles of physical, psychological terror, and pain that led to the making--and unmaking--of enslaved Africans held and transported onboard slave ships. Mustakeem relates how this process, and related power struggles, played out not just for adult men, but also for women, children, teens, infants, nursing mothers, the elderly, diseased, ailing, and dying. As she does so, she offers provocative new insights into how gender, health, age, illness, and medical treatment intersected with trauma and violence transformed human beings into the most commercially sought commodity for over four centuries.

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