TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mustakeem,Sowande' M.
TI  - Slavery at sea: terror, sex, and sickness in the middle passage 
T2  - The new Black studies series
SN  - 9780252098994
AV  - HT1332 
U1  - 306.3620966 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Urbana
PB  - University of Illinois Press
KW  - Slave ships
KW  - Atlantic Ocean
KW  - Slave trade
KW  - Atlantic Ocean Region
KW  - Slaves
KW  - Violence against
KW  - Health and hygiene
KW  - Women slaves
KW  - Négriers (Navires)
KW  - Atlantique, Océan
KW  - Esclaves
KW  - Commerce
KW  - Atlantique, Région de l'
KW  - Violence envers
KW  - Santé et hygiène
KW  - Femmes esclaves
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Gewalt
KW  - gnd
KW  - Handelsschiff
KW  - Sklavenhandel
KW  - Middle Passage
KW  - Atlantique (océan)
KW  - rero
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 meditation on memory
N2  - "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 deeply, the book centers how the oceanic transport of human cargoes--infamously known as the 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. Mustakeem offers provocative new insights into how gender, health, age, illness, and medical treatment intersected with trauma and violence transformed human beings into the world's most commercially sought commodity for over four centuries."--Publisher's description
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