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

"The history of the trans-Atlantic slave trade is deeply embedded in the emergence of early modern economic and political institutions. Reckoning with Slavery resituates the early modern as the space out of which race, racial hierarchies, notions of value and trade, and ideas of gender and reproduct...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Morgan, Jennifer L. (Jennifer Lyle) (Author)
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2021.
Subjects:
Slavery > Political aspects > America.
Slavery > Economic aspects > America.
Enslaved women > America.
Enslaved women > Atlantic Ocean Region.
Slave trade > America > History.
Slave trade > Atlantic Ocean Region > History.
Slave trade.
Slavery > Economic aspects.
Slavery > Political aspects.
America.
Atlantic Ocean Region.
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xvi, 296 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
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.