{"product_id":"reckoning-with-slavery-9781478014140","title":"Reckoning with Slavery","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eReckoning with Slavery\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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.” -- Vincent Brown, author of * Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War *\u003cbr\u003e“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. \u003ci\u003eReckoning with Slavery\u003c\/i\u003e 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.” -- Hazel V. Carby, author of * Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eReckoning with Slavery\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\" -- Diana Paton * Black Perspectives *\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\" -- Tim Lockley * Ethnic and Racial Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\"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 \u003ci\u003eReckoning with Slavery\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\" -- Li Qi Peh * Critical Inquiry *\u003cbr\u003e\"As Black women lead worldwide movements to affirm the worth of Black lives in the face of white-supremacist violence today, \u003ci\u003eReckoning with Slavery\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\" -- Eduarda Lira Araujo * E3W Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\" -- Deirdre Cooper Owens * Studies in Romanticism *\u003cbr\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003eReckoning with Slavery\u003c\/i\u003e] 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.\" -- Mariana L. R. Dantas * Journal of Early American History *\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\" -- Karol K. Weaver * H-Slavery, H-Net Reviews *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eReckoning with Slavery\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\" -- Allison Madar * H-Early-America, H-Net Reviews *\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\" -- Eliga Gould * The Americas *\u003cbr\u003e\"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 \u003ci\u003eReckoning with Slavery\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\" -- Daniel Livesay * Journal of Family History *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eReckoning with Slavery\u003c\/i\u003e is, simply put, a brilliant and important work. I am in awe of Morgan’s achievement.\" -- Carla Gardina Pestana * New West Indian Guide\/Niewe West-Indische Gids *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface  ix\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  xi\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Refusing Demography  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Producing Numbers: Reckoning with the Sex Ratio in the Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1500–1700  29\u003cbr\u003e 2. \"Unfit Subjects of Trade\": Demographic Logics and Colonial Encounters  55\u003cbr\u003e 3. \"To Their Great Commoditie\": Numeracy and the Production of African Difference  110\u003cbr\u003e 4. Accounting for the \"Most Excruciating Torment\": Transatlantic Passages  141\u003cbr\u003e 5. \"The Division of the Captives\": Commerce and Kinship in the English Americas  170\u003cbr\u003e 6. \"Treacherous Rogues\": Locating Women in Resistance and Revolt  207\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion. Madness  245\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  257\u003cbr\u003e Index  283","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48867286516055,"sku":"9781478014140","price":20.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478014140.jpg?v=1722282601","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/reckoning-with-slavery-9781478014140","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}