Jennifer L. Morgan

Reckoning with Slavery

Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 153mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 452g
• ISBN-13: 9781478014140
• ISBN-10: 1478014148
• Artikelnr.: 60018651

Autorenporträt

Jennifer L. Morgan is Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and History at New York University, author of Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery, and coeditor of Connexions: Histories of Race and Sex in America.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface  ix
Acknowledgments  xi
Introduction. Refusing Demography  1
1. Producing Numbers: Reckoning with the Sex Ratio in the Transatlantic
Slave Trade, 1500–1700  29
2. "Unfit Subjects of Trade": Demographic Logics and Colonial Encounters 
55
3. "To Their Great Commoditie": Numeracy and the Production of African
Difference  110
4. Accounting for the "Most Excruciating Torment": Transatlantic Passages 
141
5. "The Division of the Captives": Commerce and Kinship in the English
Americas  170
6. "Treacherous Rogues": Locating Women in Resistance and Revolt  207
Conclusion. Madness  245
Bibliography  257
Index  283