Reckoning with slavery : gender, kinship, and capitalism in the early Black Atlantic / Jennifer L. Morgan.

"Jennifer L. Morgan draws on the lived experiences of enslaved African women in the sixteenth- and seventeenth-centuries to reveal the contours of early modern notions of trade, race, and commodification in the Black Atlantic."--

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Main Author: Morgan, Jennifer L. (Jennifer Lyle) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2021.
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Table of Contents:
  • Producing numbers : reckoning with the sex ratio in the transatlantic slave trade, 1500-1700
  • "Unfit subjects of trade" : demographic logics and colonial encounters
  • "To their great commoditie" : numeracy and the production of African difference
  • Accounting for the "most excruciating torment" : transatlantic passages
  • "The division of the captives" : commerce and kinship in the English Americas
  • "Treacherous rogues" : locating women in resistance and revolt.