Materializing the Middle Passage (1680-1807) – ePub

Between 1680 and 1807, an estimated 2.7 million Africans were forced to travel across the Atlantic on British slave ships, a journey known as the ‘Middle Passage’. This book takes a deep look at the importance of the slave ship and suggests that even though very few sunk slave ships have been found, there are other ways for archaeologists to learn about and understand them.

Using many different sources, including old documents, studies of ships and land remains, paintings, museum items, and more, the book tries to recreate British slave ships and track their changes over time in the book _Materializing the Middle Passage: A Historical Archaeology of British Slave Shipping,1680-1807_.

The book then goes on to discuss how people reacted to the slave ship and its goods in coastal West Africa. It also explains the different types of African resources (like ivory, gold, and live animals) that came to Britain on ships returning from Africa. The third part of the book focuses on the experiences of both the captives and the crews during the Middle Passage and argues that more attention needs to be given to the ways Africans survived and resisted their captivity.

Jane Webster investigates the mysterious nature of the African Middle Passage experience, even though scholars have been trying to understand it for a long time. She explores the memories of the ‘saltwater’ captives in the Caribbean and North America, looking at how and why they remembered the journey. This richly illustrated book skillfully combines words and pictures, guided by a theory that combines creolization and postcolonial theory, and emphasizes the physical importance of the slave ship and its systems.

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