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Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic

Name: Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic
Brand: Duke University Press
SKU: 9781478014140
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Contributors:

Jennifer L. Morgan

Publisher:

Duke University Press

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Social Science, History

Book Subcategory:

Ethnic Studies, Gender Studies, United States

Book Topic:

American

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Release Date:

2021-06-11

ISBN 13:

9781478014140

Weight:

0.93 lbs

Size:

9.00 x 6.00 x 0.66 inches

Pages:

312

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In Reckoning with Slavery Jennifer L. Morgan draws on the lived experiences of enslaved African women in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to reveal the contours of early modern notions of trade, race, and commodification in the Black Atlantic. From capture to transport to sale to childbirth, these women were demographically counted as commodities during the Middle Passage, vulnerable to rape, separated from their kin at slave markets, and subject to laws that enslaved their children upon birth. In this way, they were central to the binding of reproductive labor with kinship, racial hierarchy, and the economics of slavery. Throughout this groundbreaking study, Morgan demonstrates that the development of Western notions of value and race occurred simultaneously. In so doing, she illustrates how racial capitalism denied the enslaved their kinship and affective ties while simultaneously relying on kinship to reproduce and enforce slavery through enslaved female bodies.

About the Author
Jennifer L. Morgan is Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and History at New York University, author of Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery, and coeditor of Connexions: Histories of Race and Sex in America.

Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic

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