Slavery at Sea: Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage

by Sowande M. Mustakeem

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252082028
• ISBN13: 9780252082023
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"