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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.
List of contents
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
About the author
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.
Summary
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.
