Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora
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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-centur
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Manufacturer: Harvard University Press
Release date: 15 December 2008
ISBN-10 : 0674030680 | ISBN-13: 9780674030688
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Release date: 15 December 2008
ISBN-10 : 0674030680 | ISBN-13: 9780674030688