As she does so, she offers provocative new insights into how gender, health, age, illness, and medical treatment intersected with trauma and violence transformed human beings into the most commercially sought commodity for over four centuries. Mustakeem relates how this process, and related power struggles, played out not just for adult men, but also for women, children, teens, infants, nursing mothers, the elderly, diseased, ailing, and dying. As she shows, crewmen manufactured captives through enforced dependency, relentless cycles of physical, psychological terror, and pain that led to the making-and unmaking-of enslaved Africans held and transported onboard slave ships. Mining ship logs, records and personal documents, Mustakeem teases out the social histories produced between those on traveling ships: slaves, captains, sailors, and surgeons. Sowande' Mustakeem's groundbreaking study goes inside the Atlantic slave trade to explore the social conditions and human costs embedded in the world of maritime slavery.
Expanding the gaze even more widely, the book centers on how the oceanic transport of human cargoes-known as the infamous Middle Passage-comprised a violently regulated process foundational to the institution of bondage. Mustakeem’s Slavery at Sea: Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage and the violence enslaved people faced at the hands of American and European slave traders during their forced voyage across the Atlantic Ocean. This book reveals for the first time how it took critical shape at sea. Episode 1 of our podcast Add Men and Stir In this episode we discuss Dr. Most times left solely within the confine of plantation narratives, slavery was far from a land-based phenomenon.
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