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

Author/creator Morgan, Jennifer L. author.
Format Book
PublicationDurham : Duke University Press, 2021.
Copyright Date̐u2021
Descriptionxvi, 296 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects

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.
Abstract "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 reproduction are mutually constituted. Through a study of numeracy, trade, counting, and commerce, the lives and experiences of enslaved women in the sixteenth and seventeenth century English Atlantic world come into focus. Rather than treating economy and culture as distinct aspects of social history, Reckoning with Slavery asks what we can come to know about kinship, family, and race through the archives of trade and commerce"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Morgan, Jennifer L. (Jennifer Lyle). Reckoning with slavery. Durham : Duke University Press, 2021. 9781478021452
Genre/formHistory.
LCCN 2020038911
ISBN9781478014140
ISBN9781478013235 hardcover
ISBN1478013230 hardcover
ISBN1478014148 paperback
ISBNelectronic book

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