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...Anna More Abstract This article argues that an infrastructural analysis of the early Portuguese slave trade permits a detailed account of the emergence of what Cedric Robinson called “racial capitalism.” The early Portuguese slave ship is one of the clearest examples of how an infrastructure...

...Yuko Miki This article delves into the strange, contradictory archives of the illegal transatlantic slave trade that flourished between Angola and Brazil in the mid-nineteenth century. The article interweaves contemporary archival encounters with the documentary trail of a notorious slave ship...

...Max Hantel; Kyla Schuller; Jules Gill-Peterson This article critically examines the role of neurobiology in the work of Sylvia Wynter through her own “pieza framework.” Wynter argues that the pieza , the figure of exchange invented at the beginning of the slave trade, haunts contemporary political...

...Niccolò Cuppini; Mattia Frapporti This conversation on logistics seeks to explore the persistence of origins in contemporary logistical capitalism. We discuss the ongoing importance of the founding of modern logistics in the Atlantic slave trade. We suggest that contemporary logistical capitalism...

....’” 26 For more on the slave trade as manufacturing slaves, see Mustakeem, Slavery at Sea . See also the African American Intellectual History Society’s forum on Slavery at Sea , including Johnson, “Moral Challenge of the Middle Passage” ; Egerton, “Unearthing the Human Stories” ; Fuentes, “Violent...

... of European colonial incursion into Africa and Asia to satisfy the endless demand for New World labor. © 2016 Duke University Press 2016 slavery indenture coolie storytelling archive References Alpers Edward A. 2007 . “The Other Middle Passage: The African Slave Trade...

... to rationalize and implement slavery and its after- math. By investigating the obscured connections between the emergence of European liberalism, on the one hand, and settler colonialism in the Americas, the transatlantic African slave trade, and the East Indies...

... Black visitors, primarily tourists, negotiate the encounter with Ghana’s various physical memorials to the transatlantic slave trade with their traumatic history of racialized marginalization in the United States. This begs the question: how would a focus on Ghanaian imaginings of slavery...

... in the context of his Jamaica voyage, undertaken at a time when British colonization and capital investment were intensifying dramatically in the Caribbean islands through promotion of the Atlantic slave trade and a plantation-­based sugar economy built on West African labor. Naturalists like Sloane were...

.... collectivities with From this region of northern West Africa, Muslims with non-Muslims, herders, fishermen, agriculturalists, as well as those from “stateless” soci- distinct histories eties, were sold en masse into the transatlantic slave trade until the mid...

... trade. 41 Saffin explains that he and four associates arranged in 1680 for the ship Elizabeth to sail for Guinea and return with enslaved Africans. This venture would have been in violation of the Royal African Company's monopoly on slave trading, so the ship upon its return would have to evade...

... a psychological adaptation to oppression among Gold Coast Africans. Wright employed several thematic strategies to convey his stance of detached partisanship. First, he framed his narrative within a meditation on the memory of the slave trade and knowledge...

... on a sculpture by Michael Visocchi in Fen Court, City of London, commemorating the bicentennial of the abolition of the British slave trade. Sissay’s poem encodes the ongoing presence of British slavery and its legacies amidst London finance. 29 Singh, “On Race,” 55 . 30 Lienau, Rethinking...

... of scholarly thinking is lost in theoretical scope and political capaciousness, as it tends toward a significant bracketing or relegation of contemporaneous modes of economic expansion, particularly slavery and the slave trade, whose links to the rise of industrial capitalism may be acknowledged as a component...

..., racialized oppression, and systematic dispossession of the slave trade, then the Pan-African impulse stems from the necessity to confront or heal that legacy through racial organization itself: through ideologies of a real...

....” In The Chattel Principle: Internal Slave Trades in the Americas, edited by Walter Johnson, 203–33. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. Weller, Toni. 2012. History in the Digital Age. New York: Routledge. White, Richard. 2010. “What...

... . Renny Robert . A History of Jamaica: With Observations on the Climate, Scenery, Trade, Productions, Negroes, Slave Trade, Diseases of Europeans, Customs, Manners, and Dispositions of the Inhabitants: To Which Is Added, an Illustration of the Advantages Which Are Likely to Result from the Abolition...

... Island.” Harries links the transatlantic slave trade to the journeys from Europe around the Cape to East Africa and return voyages across the South Atlantic by using the phrase “the long middle passage.” 10. Lavery, “Diving into the Slave Wreck,” 2 . 9. Ferreira da Silva, Unpayable Debt...

... by burgeoning social and political movements in the United States and the Caribbean. The transatlantic slave trade was, for over four hundred years, a touchstone for the development of modern Western economic, political, and legal systems, and its legacies...

...) 47 She goes on to expand on this notion of a new Atlantic identity born out of the transatlantic slave trade: “O que é Africana e Americana? É um grande transatlântico. Ela não é a civilização Atlântica, ela é Transatlântica.” (What is African and American? It is a great ship [ocean liner...