Saltwater slavery : a middle passage from Africa to American diaspora / Stephanie E. Smallwood.

First Harvard University Press paperback edition.

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2008.

©2007.

273 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm.

Winner of the Frederick Douglass Book Prize.

Stephanie Smallwood offers a penetrating look at the process of enslavement from its African origins through the Middle Passage and into the American slave market. Her story in animated by deep research and gives us a startingly graphic experience of the slave trade from the vantage point of the slaves themselves.

English

September 04, 2019

Includes bibliographical references and index.