By Stephanie E. Smallwood
This daring, cutting edge e-book delivers to greatly regulate our knowing of the Atlantic slave exchange, and the depths of its horrors. Stephanie E. Smallwood bargains a penetrating examine the method of enslavement from its African origins in the course of the heart Passage and into the yank slave marketplace. Smallwood's tale is lively by means of deep study and offers us a startlingly photograph adventure of the slave exchange from the vantage element of the slaves themselves. finally, Saltwater Slavery info how African humans have been reworked into Atlantic commodities within the strategy. She starts her narrative at the shorelines of seventeenth-century Africa, tracing how the alternate in human our bodies got here to outline the lifetime of the Gold Coast. Smallwood takes us into the ports and stone fortresses the place African captives have been held and ready, after which in the course of the heart Passage itself. In notable aspect, we witness those women and men cramped within the holds of ships, gasping for air, and attempting to make feel of an strange sea and an unbelievable vacation spot. Arriving in the United States, we see how those new migrants input the marketplace for laboring our bodies, and fight to reconstruct their social identities within the New global. all through, Smallwood examines how the folk on the middle of her story--merchant capitalists, sailors, and slaves--made experience of the bloody approach during which they have been joined. the result's either a notable transatlantic view of the tradition of enslavement, and a painful, intimate imaginative and prescient of the bloody, day-by-day enterprise of the slave exchange. (20070115)
