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PublisherDuke University Press
ISBN-101478014148
ISBN-139781478014140
eBay Product ID (ePID)25050393342
Product Key Features
Number of Pages312 Pages
Publication NameReckoning with Slavery : Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic
LanguageEnglish
SubjectGender Studies, Social History, United States / General, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Publication Year2021
TypeTextbook
AuthorJennifer L. Morgan
Subject AreaSocial Science, History
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight15.2 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2020-038911
ReviewsAs Black women lead worldwide movements to affirm the worth of Black lives in the face of white-supremacist violence today, Reckoning with Slavery illuminates some of the roots of this radical tradition of imagining Black futurity and making the world anew against the seemingly all-powerful forces of the state and the market., Through her whole career, Jennifer Morgan has blazed the trail for scholars seeking to understand the foundational dynamics of reproduction in the Atlantic World. In Reckoning with Slavery , she has crafted yet more theoretical considerations by which to comprehend the intersection of gender and capitalism, and this book will undoubtedly stimulate yet more rounds of discussion and debate. It is a text that will reach and impact many scholarly communities: those studying slavery, gender, family, the economy, and relations of power. It will also serve as a critical guide to face the new reality of reproduction in the United States going forward., Jennifer L. Morgan examines the transition to racialized slavery in the early modern Atlantic world with innovative research methods and original analysis. She brilliantly accounts for the emergence of an unholy alliance between a novel proficiency with numbers and the hierarchical classification of human difference, which helped to make kinship into a commodity. This is essential reading for anyone who wonders how black humanity ceased to matter to some, and why centuries later we must still proclaim the worth of black lives., There is much about this book that's deeply impressive. The depth and breadth of the research give a solidity to the argument that belies the difficult and fragmentary sources., For slavery's early history, especially the role that gender, kinship, and capitalism played in the rise and perpetuation of human bondage throughout the Atlantic World, this is a book to be reckoned with, one that is sure to be required reading. I predict that it will remain that way for a long time to come., Jennifer L. Morgan makes an original, innovative, and creative intervention in the study of race and gender that establishes the groundwork necessary for revising our knowledge of the systems of trade and the commodification of peoples in the nineteenth century. Reckoning with Slavery is essential reading for anyone in the social sciences and the humanities who wants to understand the formation of the modern world. A major work., Morgan's book will be welcomed by scholars who study the history of slavery and women's history. She concentrates on women, their bodies, their experiences, their feelings, and their decisions. The book should be required reading in graduate courses on the history of slavery, economic history, the history of the body, and women's history. Finally, it should be included in historical methodology classes due to its excellent incorporation of theory and its outstanding analysis of primary sources., Jennifer L. Morgan's second book is one that will change the way scholars of slavery and the Black Atlantic think about the archives, enslaved women, and Black women's theoretical and methodological offerings then and now. . . . It should become essential reading for academic audiences, college students, and any organization interested in reparations., Morgan's contribution to the study of women in the slave trade is richly interdisciplinary and moves seamlessly between the primary sources of three empires . . . Reckoning with Slavery is an incredible contribution to many fields in the study of the slave trade and slavery., One of the most illuminating aspects of Morgan's work is how it invites us to reconsider the data we have about the slave trade. . . . Many of the stories of enslaved women might never be recovered, but Reckoning with Slavery shows how their stories might still be told by reading their silences creatively. The absence of women from the history of slave revolts, for instance, might not necessarily mean that they failed to participate in these uprisings or that they only participated in tiny, quotidian ways. It might also mean that their deeds were erased because women were so foundational to these uprisings that they inspired unease. Such a creative methodology paves the way for new, provocative historical narratives to be written., Reckoning with Slavery is, simply put, a brilliant and important work. I am in awe of Morgan's achievement., Reckoning with Slavery is a valuable addition to the studies of enslaved women, slavery, slavery and capitalism, and the violence of the archive. It is a wonderful example of the importance of centering the lives and experiences of enslaved women and their own understanding of the connections between kinship, slavery, and capitalism., Jennifer L. Morgan examines the transition to racialized slavery in the early modern Atlantic world with innovative research methods and original analysis. She brilliantly accounts for the emergence of an unholy alliance between a novel proficiency with numbers and the hierarchical classification of human difference, which helped to make kinship into a commodity. This is essential reading for anyone who wonders how Black humanity ceased to matter to some, and why centuries later we must still proclaim the worth of Black lives., Reckoning with Slavery challenges historians who have reckoned with slavery in the numerical sense without reckoning in the intellectual and moral sense with the subjectivity and intellectual work of enslaved people. . . . The threads of this rich and powerful work will generate new scholarship for years to come., [ Reckoning with Slavery ] sets a new bar for historians of the early modern era and of Western modernity. Morgan helps us see capitalism as racial capitalism, the radicalism of the Enlightenment as Black radicalism, and African women as central to both - and now that we see, there is no unseeing.
Dewey Edition23
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal306.362
Table Of ContentPreface ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction. Refusing Demography 1 1. Producing Numbers: Reckoning with the Sex Ratio in the Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1500-1700 29 2. "Unfit Subjects of Trade": Demographic Logics and Colonial Encounters 55 3. "To Their Great Commoditie": Numeracy and the Production of African Difference 110 4. Accounting for the "Most Excruciating Torment": Transatlantic Passages 141 5. "The Division of the Captives": Commerce and Kinship in the English Americas 170 6. "Treacherous Rogues": Locating Women in Resistance and Revolt 207 Conclusion. Madness 245 Bibliography 257 Index 283
SynopsisJennifer 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., 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.
LC Classification NumberHT871.M67 2021
