Mustakeem's groundbreaking study. . . . offers provocative new insights into how gender, health, age, illness, and medical treatment intersected with trauma and violence and transformed human beings into the world's most commercially sought commodity for over four centuries.
Huffington Post Essential.
Choice A compelling and original argument that makes a fundamental ... Read morecontribution to the history of slavery in colonial British America.
William and Mary Quarterly An intensely social history of the transatlantic slave trade . . . Mustakeem consciously centers her narrative on the very young and old, women, and the infirm to demonstrate the ways in which there was no one Middle Passage.
The Junto This excellent work illustrates the paradoxical significance of U.S. slavery studies in relation to the larger African Diaspora.
Register of the Kentucky Historical Society Slavery at Sea does an excellent job describing the importance of the Middle Passage, as well as forcefully rejecting the notion that slave subjugation began upon arrival in America... Excellent research, a clear and engaging literary style, and an appropriate use of primary source material recommend this book for the student of the Atlantic slave trade or the historian who desires new insights into the manufacturing process of slavery.
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