Waubonsee Community College

Reckoning with slavery, gender, kinship, and capitalism in the early Black Atlantic, Jennifer L. Morgan

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-281) and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

Reckoning with slavery

bibliography

1193558205

Jennifer L. Morgan

gender, kinship, and capitalism in the early Black Atlantic

"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