Morgan Jennifer L. Morgan

Reckoning with Slavery (eBook, PDF)

Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic

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Produktbeschreibung

In Reckoning with Slavery 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. From capture to transport to sale to childbirth, these women were demographically counted as commodities during the Middle Passage, vulnerable to rape, separated from their kin at slave markets, and subject to laws that enslaved their children upon birth. In this way, they were central to the binding of reproductive labor with kinship, racial hierarchy, and the economics of slavery. Throughout this groundbreaking study, Morgan demonstrates that the development of Western notions of value and race occurred simultaneously. In so doing, she illustrates how racial capitalism denied the enslaved their kinship and affective ties while simultaneously relying on kinship to reproduce and enforce slavery through enslaved female bodies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. April 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781478021452
• Artikelnr.: 66283132

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