Slavery at Sea: Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage

In most cases it is only within the story of the plantation, slavery is far from the land. This book reveals an important form of the ocean for the first time. This book focuses on the maritime transportation of human goods, which is widely attracted attention, known as a notorious intermediate passage, and how it constitutes the process of violent regulation, the foundation of slavery I'm counting on you. This book introduces the Atlantic slave trade and explores the social situation and labor costs of the world of sea slavery. Mining ship logs, records and personal documents, more ...

"Maritime slavery includes a painful captured story, a breathtaking torture novel, and a painful intermediate passage story that makes lives of many enslaved people live on the sea.This study often I am also concerned about age, sex and health to notify the economic development of international slave trade. "- Jim Downs," Free Wick: African American in Civil War and Reconstruction The Sick and Suffering Author

There is slavery in the history of the world, but it has never reached a large proportion like the Middle / Atlantic crossing slave trade. Even today historians do not know exactly how many Africans were murdered at sea during the middle class. The estimated total number of Africans lost in slave trade is 25 million to 50 million. The slave merchants got their Africans in one of two ways. One technique involves a slave merchant waiting until an African man comes up and captures the undoubted locals. Another method requires that slave traders alliance with tribal leaders. Then the tribal leaders will fight against neighboring tribes. Later captured enemies will exchange goods with slave merchants such as tobacco and wine.

Who is African? Through the fear of the middle channel, what did they bring to these coasts in their hearts and souls? To understand the essence of Africa in slavery society, the classic black Odyssey of Nathan Huggins: a valuable study of African-American suffering from slavery 4 This is a wise and wise work. And poetry. Odyssey is a story meditation on the identity of men and women in Africa in slavery, forming their world view, their interaction with white people, their reactions and resistance to slavery. The African religion and values ​​of the community blend European Christianity and create Christian liberation theology of African-American who promotes South slave resistance and fundamental abolition of the Northern Black Church