... Questions of demography and demographic data have always been the foundation on which social histories are built. How many women were captured and transported to the Americas in the first two hundred years of the transatlantic slave trade? Chapter 1, “Producing Numbers: Reckoning with the Sex...

... capacities marked their understanding of the Middle Passage. Chapter 4, “Accounting for the ‘Most Excruciating Torment’: Transatlantic Passages,” considers both the experience of the Middle Passage for captive women and the archival challenges of framing their presence. It argues that women resisted...