Saltwater Slavery

A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora

Stephanie E. Smallwood

  • 2008 Frederick Douglass Book Prize, Yale University's Gilder Lehrman Center

Introduction

1. The Gold Coast and the Atlantic Market for People

2. Turning African Captives into Atlantic Commodities

3. The Political Economy of the Slave Ship

4. The Anomalous Intimacies of the Slave Cargo

5. The Living Dead aboard the Slave Ship at Sea

6. Turning Atlantic Commodities into American Slaves

7. Life and Death in Diaspora

Conclusion: Saltwater Slavery in Memory and History

Notes

Index

  • Cover: Saltwater Slavery

Stephanie E. Smallwood teaches History at the University of Washington, Seattle.