![]() ![]() ![]() Mining ship logs, records and personal documents, Mustakeem teases out the social histories produced between those on traveling ships: slaves, captains, sailors, and surgeons.Īs she shows, crewmen manufactured captives through enforced dependency, relentless cycles of physical, psychological terror, and pain that led to the the making-and unmaking-of enslaved Africans held and transported onboard slave ships. 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. This book reveals for the first time how it took critical shape at sea.Įxpanding 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. Most times left solely within the confine of plantation narratives, slavery was far from a land-based phenomenon. ![]()
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