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Subject(s)

• Slavery—Political aspects—America [Browse]
• Slavery—Economic aspects—America [Browse]
• Enslaved women—America [Browse]
• Enslaved women—Atlantic Ocean Region [Browse]
• Slave trade—America—History [Browse]
• Slave trade—Atlantic Ocean Region—History [Browse]

Summary note

"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.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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ISBN

• 9781478013235 (hardcover)
• 1478013230 (hardcover)
• 9781478014140 (paperback)
• 1478014148 (paperback)

LCCN

2020038911

OCLC

1193558205

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