1st Edition

Maritime Slavery

Edited By Philip Morgan Copyright 2012
192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

Think of maritime slavery, and the notorious Middle Passage – the unprecedented, forced migration of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic – readily comes to mind. This so-called ‘middle leg’ – from Africa to the Americas – of a supposed trading triangle linking Europe, Africa, and the Americas naturally captures attention for its scale and horror. After all, the Middle Passage was the largest... Read more

1. Introduction: Maritime Slavery Philip D. Morgan, Johns Hopkins University, USA

Part I: Caribbean Sea

2. Mediterranean Slavery, New World Transformations: Galley Slaves in the Spanish Caribbean, 1578–1635 David Wheat, Michigan State University, USA

3. Enslaved Pearl Divers in the Sixteenth Century Caribbean Molly A. Warsh, Texas A&M University, USA

Part II: Atlantic Ocean

4. Facilitating the Slave Trade: Company Slaves at Cape Coast Castle, 1750–1807 Ty M. Reese, University of North Dakota, USA

5. Eighteenth Century ‘Prize Negroes’: From Britain to America Charles R. Foy, Eastern Illinois University, USA

6. Different Slave Journeys: Enslaved African Seamen on Board of Portuguese Ships, c.1760–1820s Mariana P. Candido, Princeton University, USA

7. Gorge: An African Seaman and his Flights from ‘Freedom’ back to ‘Slavery’ in the Early Nineteenth Century Walter Hawthorne, Michigan State University, USA

Part III: Indian and Pacific Oceans

8. Saltwater Slavers and Captives in the Sulu Zone, 1768–1878 James Francis Warren, Murdoch University, Australia

9. Bondsmen, Freedmen, and Maritime Industrial Transportation, c.1840–1900 Janet J. Ewald, Duke University, USA

10. ‘I Espied a Chinaman’: Chinese Sailors and the Fracturing of the Nineteenth Century Pacific Maritime Labour Force John T. Grider, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, USA

Biography

Philip D. Morgan is Harry C. Black Professor in the Department of History at Johns Hopkins University, USA, and held the position of Visiting Harmsworth Professor at Queen’s College, University of Oxford, UK, during 2011-12. He is the author of Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry (1998) and co-editor of Oxford Handbook of the Atlantic World, 1450-1850 (2011).