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... 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...

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... Chapter 2, “‘Unfit Subjects of Trade’: Demographic Logics and Colonial Encounters,” explores how the development of the transatlantic slave trade as an instrument of colonial settlement and extraction relied upon the production of new ideologies of both race and economy. The emergence of early...

.... They had a particular relationship to the rhythms of slavery and its ideology—capture, transport, sale, labor, and refusal—that was rooted in their reproductive potential. This introduction argues that a history of women and the transatlantic slave trade reveals the contours of early modern notions...

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... Chapter 1, “Art Markets and Futures Speculation,” studies the rise of one of the first global art markets, built on financial speculation and the rise of the transatlantic slave trade. Focusing on the maritime works of Hercules Segers (1589–1638) and Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–69), this chapter...

... and mutually constitutive. While the statuses of these categories are different, all were subject to varying degrees of coercive labor extraction. The introduction also highlights the phenomena of “category drift” that accelerated after the end of the transatlantic slave trade in 1850, the mobilization...

... of Palmaristas taken prisoner, which the chapter places in conversation with the statistics compiled in the Transatlantic Slave Trade Database. Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade database kidnapping pawnship ...

..., this chapter argues that the rise of the transatlantic slave trade created a crisis around the figuration of the transubstantiation of a life into chattel property. M. NourbeSe Philip Reformation slavery Lucille Clifton 1619 ...

... Ghanaian governments’ extensive tourism and diasporan investment pushes, which rely heavily on the Nkrumah triumphalist narrative and the promotion of relics from the era of the transatlantic slave trade to induce roots tourism. This chapter demonstrates how origin/homeland myths, productions of return...

... of Palmaristas taken prisoner, which the chapter places in conversation with the statistics compiled in the Transatlantic Slave Trade Database. Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade database kidnapping pawnship Chapter 6, “The Powerful and Almost Powerful,” examines who secured power and who did not after...

...: the unstable boundaries between narrative forms, and the legacies of the conquest of the Americas and the transatlantic slave trade. By linking disability to these larger issues in Díaz’s fiction, this chapter argues that a critical disability perspective on Díaz’s fiction offers new theoretical insights about...

... culture produced respectability-based sexual binaries meant to combat the consequences and afterlife of sexual and human trafficking during the transatlantic slave trade, Black girls need alternative sexual literacies that honor their right to bodily autonomy, feeling, curiosities, sexual subjectivity...

... to two of Díaz’s primary interests as a writer: the unstable boundaries between narrative forms, and the legacies of the conquest of the Americas and the transatlantic slave trade. By linking disability to these larger issues in Díaz’s fiction, this chapter argues that a critical disability perspective...

... Thistlewood, written accounts of the slave trade, runaway slave notices, and cartes de visite are analyzed in this chapter to argue that the history of branding in transatlantic slavery anticipates contemporary social sorting. Using Frantz Fanon’s concept of epidermalization, this chapter charts a genealogy...