Materializing the middle passage :: a historical archaeology of British slave shipping, 1680-1807 /
Jane Webster develops a pioneering approach to 'rebuilding' British slaving vessels, creating a new archaeology of the Middle Passage. The book also examines multiple sources and accounts, questioning why the African Middle Passage experience remains elusive, even after decades of scholars...
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| Zusammenfassung: | Jane Webster develops a pioneering approach to 'rebuilding' British slaving vessels, creating a new archaeology of the Middle Passage. The book also examines multiple sources and accounts, questioning why the African Middle Passage experience remains elusive, even after decades of scholarship dedicated to uncovering it. |
| Beschreibung: | Also issued in print: 2023. |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource : illustrations. |
| Zielpublikum: | Specialized. |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Cover -- Materializing the Middle Passage: A Historical Archaeology of British Slave Shipping, 1680-1807 -- Copyright -- Acknowledgements -- A note about images -- A note on the text -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Boxes -- Abbreviations -- 1. Materializing the Middle Passage: An Introduction in Three Objects -- Transcript and Discourse: Reading between the Lines of Elite Documents -- Empathy, Interpretation, and Context: Reading the Material Culture of Slave Shipping -- Middle Passage Outcomes: Modelling Saltwater Identities -- About the Rest of This Book -- Notes -- 2. The British Slave Trade: A Brief Overview -- The British Slave Trade, 1562-1807 -- Ports and People of the British Slave Trade -- Reading Southwell Frigate -- The Abolition of the British Slave Trade -- West Africa at the Time of the Slave Trade -- New World Destinations: Disembarkation Points for British Captives -- Notes -- 3. Voices from the Sea: Documentary Narratives of Middle Passage Voyages -- Slave Ship Crews -- Sea Journals -- Thomas Phillips on Hannibal (1693-4) -- Walter Prideaux on Daniel and Henry (1700) -- John Newton on Duke of Argyle (1750-1) -- Robert Norris on Unity (1769-71) -- Samuel Gamble on Sandown (1793-4) -- Memoirs Based on Sea Journals -- John Barbot and His Family (Writing 1678-1712) -- Robert Barker's 1774-5 Voyage on Thetis (published 1758) -- Henry Smeathman (Writing c.1775) -- William Butterworth's 1786-7 Voyage on Hudibras (published 1823) -- Hugh Crow 1807-8 Voyage on Kitty's Amelia (published 1830) -- The Parliamentary Inquiries of 1788-1792 -- Alexander Falconbridge, An Account of the Slave Trade (1788) -- John Newton, Thoughts upon the African Slave Trade (1788) -- James Stanfield, Observations on a Guinea Voyage (1788) -- Thomas Clarkson, Substance of the Evidence (1789) -- Testimonies before the House (1788-92). | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Asking Questions about the Slave Trade: The Clarkson Factor -- African Voices -- Notes -- 4. Artefacts from the Sea: Shipwrecks and Maritime Archaeology -- Maritime Archaeology and Slave Shipping -- The Excavated Wrecks -- Henrietta Marie (1700) -- Fredensborg (1768) -- Sea Horse (1728) -- Adélaïde (1714) -- The Elmina Wreck (Mid-Seventeenth Century) -- São José -- Clotilda (1860) -- The Ex-Slavers -- Whydah (Wrecked 1717) -- Queen Anne's Revenge (1718) -- James Matthews (1841) -- Possible Slaver Wrecks -- Conclusion: Wrecks as Sites of Memory -- Notes -- 5. Guineamen: Materializing the Merchant Slaver -- Introduction -- General Characteristics of Merchant Slavers -- Profile (Hull and Upper Deck) -- Hull Sheathing -- Rig -- Tonnage -- Hatchways and Gratings -- Gratings on the Measured Ships of 1788 -- Air Ports -- An Opportunity Largely Ignored: Hales's Ventilator -- Windsails -- Legislation and Slave Ship Design after 1788 -- Snapshots: Some British Slave Ships through Time -- The Seventeenth-Century Slaver -- Visualizing Hannibal: Excavating Thomas Phillips's 1693-4 Voyage Journal -- Henrietta Marie (constructed before 1697) -- Blandford Frigate (constructed 1719) -- Hall (built 1785) -- Visualizing 'Human Cargoes': Brooks (1787) -- The Metamorphosis -- Longboat, Pinnace, and Yawl: The Smaller Boats Carried by Slave Ships -- Temporary Deckhouses and Awnings -- The Slave Decks and Their Platforms -- Legislation and Its Impact on Platform Construction after 1788 -- Bulkheads below Decks: The Rooms -- Changes on the Main Deck -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 6. Witch Crafts: Slave Ships, Sailors, and African Cosmologies -- Dead Ancestors Walking: African Understandings of the Portuguese and Their Ships, c.1480-1550 -- Arts for Water Spirits: Mermaids and Mami Wata -- African Engagement with Ships' Figureheads -- Kalabari Ancestral Screens. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 'Shiplike' Harps from Sierra Leone -- Notes -- 7. From Ship to Shore: Some Trade Goods and Their Biographies -- Assortment Bargaining -- Materializing Trade Goods -- Manufacturing for the Slave Trade -- Beads for the Slave Trade -- Shipping Beads: Evidence from the Shipwrecks -- Cotton Cloth for the Slave Trade -- Brass for the Slave Trade -- Shipping Brass: Metals from the Elmina Wreck -- African Lives: Trade Goods at Elmina and Savi/Ouidah -- The Afterlives and Impact of Trade Beads -- The Afterlives and Impact of Imported Textiles -- Red Gold Reworked: The Afterlives and Impact of Brasswares at Elmina -- Conclusion: Curated Lives -- Notes -- 8. Other Cargoes: Shipping Home the Productions of Africa -- Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century 'Ventures' in Gold -- Africa in the British Home -- Collecting Africa -- Exotic Animals: The Live Animal Trade -- Collecting Nature: The Slave Ship and the Naturalists -- Made at Sea: Sailors' Shell Craft -- The Extraordinary Biography of Mungo Park's Cowrie Shells -- Thomas Clarkson, Abolition and the 'Productions of Africa' -- Notes -- 9. Technologies of the Bodyon the Floating Pesthouse -- Difference Embodied: Race, Medicine, and the Black Body -- Preliminaries on the African Coast -- Branding -- 'A great slavery': The Preliminary Medical Examination of Captives -- Different Bodies: Observing African Bodily Modification -- Dealing with the Sick in Africa -- Medical Equipment -- Berthing the Sick on Board -- Coastal Deaths: Malaria and Yellow Fever among Slave Ship Crews -- Sickness Out at Sea -- Combatting-or Not Combatting-Overheating -- Middle Passage Deaths -- Battling the Bloody Flux -- Treating the Pox: Discourse and Practice -- 'Melancholia': Displacement Embodied -- Disposing of the Dead -- Conclusion: Children of the Salt Water -- Notes. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 10. Discipline and Punish: A Material History of Middle Passage Practice -- Slave Ships, Prisons, and Convict Transportation -- Pidgins, Creoles, and 'Ship English' -- Slave Ship 'Jargon' -- Sailors' Calls-and-Responses -- A Middle Passage Day -- The Female Ordeal -- The Iron Regime: Shackles and Deck Chains -- Middle Passage Foodways -- Technologies for Force-Feeding -- Latrines and Washing: Personal Hygiene -- Enforced Exercise -- Technologies of Discipline and Punishment: The Cat -- Smoking -- 'Some little games' -- Stringing Beads -- Captive Labourers -- The Second Meal of the Day, and Its Aftermath -- A Middle Passage Night -- Disciplinary Artefacts: Clarkson's Chest Revisited -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 11. Surviving the Middle Passage -- At the Extremes of the Spectrum: Insurrection and Suicide -- Insurrection -- Suicide -- Middle Passage Infrapolitics: Resistance below the Line -- Creative Arming -- The Weapons of Women-and Girls -- Liminal Boys: The Slave Ship's Mobile Males -- The Voice under Domination: Oral Communication between Captives -- Call-and-Response Revisited -- The Slave Ship's Dance(s) Revisited -- Spiritual Weapons: Small Things of Power -- The Middle Passage of African Things -- The Third Space of African 'Nakedness' -- Conclusion: Towards the 'Ship Family' -- Notes -- 12. The Middle Passage Re-membered: A Conclusion in Three More Objects -- Materializing the 'Ship Family': Documentary Strategies -- Repositioning Olaudah Equiano's The Interesting Narrative -- John Rock's Scarification: Embodied Memory in the Diaspora -- From Bodies to Pipes: Scarified Things? -- Bioarchaeology and the Diaspora -- An African-Born Woman's Beads -- Re-Membering The Witch Craft: The African Middle Passage Today -- Notes -- References -- Index. | |
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| contents | Cover -- Materializing the Middle Passage: A Historical Archaeology of British Slave Shipping, 1680-1807 -- Copyright -- Acknowledgements -- A note about images -- A note on the text -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Boxes -- Abbreviations -- 1. Materializing the Middle Passage: An Introduction in Three Objects -- Transcript and Discourse: Reading between the Lines of Elite Documents -- Empathy, Interpretation, and Context: Reading the Material Culture of Slave Shipping -- Middle Passage Outcomes: Modelling Saltwater Identities -- About the Rest of This Book -- Notes -- 2. The British Slave Trade: A Brief Overview -- The British Slave Trade, 1562-1807 -- Ports and People of the British Slave Trade -- Reading Southwell Frigate -- The Abolition of the British Slave Trade -- West Africa at the Time of the Slave Trade -- New World Destinations: Disembarkation Points for British Captives -- Notes -- 3. Voices from the Sea: Documentary Narratives of Middle Passage Voyages -- Slave Ship Crews -- Sea Journals -- Thomas Phillips on Hannibal (1693-4) -- Walter Prideaux on Daniel and Henry (1700) -- John Newton on Duke of Argyle (1750-1) -- Robert Norris on Unity (1769-71) -- Samuel Gamble on Sandown (1793-4) -- Memoirs Based on Sea Journals -- John Barbot and His Family (Writing 1678-1712) -- Robert Barker's 1774-5 Voyage on Thetis (published 1758) -- Henry Smeathman (Writing c.1775) -- William Butterworth's 1786-7 Voyage on Hudibras (published 1823) -- Hugh Crow 1807-8 Voyage on Kitty's Amelia (published 1830) -- The Parliamentary Inquiries of 1788-1792 -- Alexander Falconbridge, An Account of the Slave Trade (1788) -- John Newton, Thoughts upon the African Slave Trade (1788) -- James Stanfield, Observations on a Guinea Voyage (1788) -- Thomas Clarkson, Substance of the Evidence (1789) -- Testimonies before the House (1788-92). Asking Questions about the Slave Trade: The Clarkson Factor -- African Voices -- Notes -- 4. Artefacts from the Sea: Shipwrecks and Maritime Archaeology -- Maritime Archaeology and Slave Shipping -- The Excavated Wrecks -- Henrietta Marie (1700) -- Fredensborg (1768) -- Sea Horse (1728) -- Adélaïde (1714) -- The Elmina Wreck (Mid-Seventeenth Century) -- São José -- Clotilda (1860) -- The Ex-Slavers -- Whydah (Wrecked 1717) -- Queen Anne's Revenge (1718) -- James Matthews (1841) -- Possible Slaver Wrecks -- Conclusion: Wrecks as Sites of Memory -- Notes -- 5. Guineamen: Materializing the Merchant Slaver -- Introduction -- General Characteristics of Merchant Slavers -- Profile (Hull and Upper Deck) -- Hull Sheathing -- Rig -- Tonnage -- Hatchways and Gratings -- Gratings on the Measured Ships of 1788 -- Air Ports -- An Opportunity Largely Ignored: Hales's Ventilator -- Windsails -- Legislation and Slave Ship Design after 1788 -- Snapshots: Some British Slave Ships through Time -- The Seventeenth-Century Slaver -- Visualizing Hannibal: Excavating Thomas Phillips's 1693-4 Voyage Journal -- Henrietta Marie (constructed before 1697) -- Blandford Frigate (constructed 1719) -- Hall (built 1785) -- Visualizing 'Human Cargoes': Brooks (1787) -- The Metamorphosis -- Longboat, Pinnace, and Yawl: The Smaller Boats Carried by Slave Ships -- Temporary Deckhouses and Awnings -- The Slave Decks and Their Platforms -- Legislation and Its Impact on Platform Construction after 1788 -- Bulkheads below Decks: The Rooms -- Changes on the Main Deck -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 6. Witch Crafts: Slave Ships, Sailors, and African Cosmologies -- Dead Ancestors Walking: African Understandings of the Portuguese and Their Ships, c.1480-1550 -- Arts for Water Spirits: Mermaids and Mami Wata -- African Engagement with Ships' Figureheads -- Kalabari Ancestral Screens. 'Shiplike' Harps from Sierra Leone -- Notes -- 7. From Ship to Shore: Some Trade Goods and Their Biographies -- Assortment Bargaining -- Materializing Trade Goods -- Manufacturing for the Slave Trade -- Beads for the Slave Trade -- Shipping Beads: Evidence from the Shipwrecks -- Cotton Cloth for the Slave Trade -- Brass for the Slave Trade -- Shipping Brass: Metals from the Elmina Wreck -- African Lives: Trade Goods at Elmina and Savi/Ouidah -- The Afterlives and Impact of Trade Beads -- The Afterlives and Impact of Imported Textiles -- Red Gold Reworked: The Afterlives and Impact of Brasswares at Elmina -- Conclusion: Curated Lives -- Notes -- 8. Other Cargoes: Shipping Home the Productions of Africa -- Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century 'Ventures' in Gold -- Africa in the British Home -- Collecting Africa -- Exotic Animals: The Live Animal Trade -- Collecting Nature: The Slave Ship and the Naturalists -- Made at Sea: Sailors' Shell Craft -- The Extraordinary Biography of Mungo Park's Cowrie Shells -- Thomas Clarkson, Abolition and the 'Productions of Africa' -- Notes -- 9. Technologies of the Bodyon the Floating Pesthouse -- Difference Embodied: Race, Medicine, and the Black Body -- Preliminaries on the African Coast -- Branding -- 'A great slavery': The Preliminary Medical Examination of Captives -- Different Bodies: Observing African Bodily Modification -- Dealing with the Sick in Africa -- Medical Equipment -- Berthing the Sick on Board -- Coastal Deaths: Malaria and Yellow Fever among Slave Ship Crews -- Sickness Out at Sea -- Combatting-or Not Combatting-Overheating -- Middle Passage Deaths -- Battling the Bloody Flux -- Treating the Pox: Discourse and Practice -- 'Melancholia': Displacement Embodied -- Disposing of the Dead -- Conclusion: Children of the Salt Water -- Notes. 10. Discipline and Punish: A Material History of Middle Passage Practice -- Slave Ships, Prisons, and Convict Transportation -- Pidgins, Creoles, and 'Ship English' -- Slave Ship 'Jargon' -- Sailors' Calls-and-Responses -- A Middle Passage Day -- The Female Ordeal -- The Iron Regime: Shackles and Deck Chains -- Middle Passage Foodways -- Technologies for Force-Feeding -- Latrines and Washing: Personal Hygiene -- Enforced Exercise -- Technologies of Discipline and Punishment: The Cat -- Smoking -- 'Some little games' -- Stringing Beads -- Captive Labourers -- The Second Meal of the Day, and Its Aftermath -- A Middle Passage Night -- Disciplinary Artefacts: Clarkson's Chest Revisited -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 11. Surviving the Middle Passage -- At the Extremes of the Spectrum: Insurrection and Suicide -- Insurrection -- Suicide -- Middle Passage Infrapolitics: Resistance below the Line -- Creative Arming -- The Weapons of Women-and Girls -- Liminal Boys: The Slave Ship's Mobile Males -- The Voice under Domination: Oral Communication between Captives -- Call-and-Response Revisited -- The Slave Ship's Dance(s) Revisited -- Spiritual Weapons: Small Things of Power -- The Middle Passage of African Things -- The Third Space of African 'Nakedness' -- Conclusion: Towards the 'Ship Family' -- Notes -- 12. The Middle Passage Re-membered: A Conclusion in Three More Objects -- Materializing the 'Ship Family': Documentary Strategies -- Repositioning Olaudah Equiano's The Interesting Narrative -- John Rock's Scarification: Embodied Memory in the Diaspora -- From Bodies to Pipes: Scarified Things? -- Bioarchaeology and the Diaspora -- An African-Born Woman's Beads -- Re-Membering The Witch Craft: The African Middle Passage Today -- Notes -- References -- Index. |
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Voices from the Sea: Documentary Narratives of Middle Passage Voyages -- Slave Ship Crews -- Sea Journals -- Thomas Phillips on Hannibal (1693-4) -- Walter Prideaux on Daniel and Henry (1700) -- John Newton on Duke of Argyle (1750-1) -- Robert Norris on Unity (1769-71) -- Samuel Gamble on Sandown (1793-4) -- Memoirs Based on Sea Journals -- John Barbot and His Family (Writing 1678-1712) -- Robert Barker's 1774-5 Voyage on Thetis (published 1758) -- Henry Smeathman (Writing c.1775) -- William Butterworth's 1786-7 Voyage on Hudibras (published 1823) -- Hugh Crow 1807-8 Voyage on Kitty's Amelia (published 1830) -- The Parliamentary Inquiries of 1788-1792 -- Alexander Falconbridge, An Account of the Slave Trade (1788) -- John Newton, Thoughts upon the African Slave Trade (1788) -- James Stanfield, Observations on a Guinea Voyage (1788) -- Thomas Clarkson, Substance of the Evidence (1789) -- Testimonies before the House (1788-92).</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="505" ind1="8" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Asking Questions about the Slave Trade: The Clarkson Factor -- African Voices -- Notes -- 4. Artefacts from the Sea: Shipwrecks and Maritime Archaeology -- Maritime Archaeology and Slave Shipping -- The Excavated Wrecks -- Henrietta Marie (1700) -- Fredensborg (1768) -- Sea Horse (1728) -- Adélaïde (1714) -- The Elmina Wreck (Mid-Seventeenth Century) -- São José -- Clotilda (1860) -- The Ex-Slavers -- Whydah (Wrecked 1717) -- Queen Anne's Revenge (1718) -- James Matthews (1841) -- Possible Slaver Wrecks -- Conclusion: Wrecks as Sites of Memory -- Notes -- 5. Guineamen: Materializing the Merchant Slaver -- Introduction -- General Characteristics of Merchant Slavers -- Profile (Hull and Upper Deck) -- Hull Sheathing -- Rig -- Tonnage -- Hatchways and Gratings -- Gratings on the Measured Ships of 1788 -- Air Ports -- An Opportunity Largely Ignored: Hales's Ventilator -- Windsails -- Legislation and Slave Ship Design after 1788 -- Snapshots: Some British Slave Ships through Time -- The Seventeenth-Century Slaver -- Visualizing Hannibal: Excavating Thomas Phillips's 1693-4 Voyage Journal -- Henrietta Marie (constructed before 1697) -- Blandford Frigate (constructed 1719) -- Hall (built 1785) -- Visualizing 'Human Cargoes': Brooks (1787) -- The Metamorphosis -- Longboat, Pinnace, and Yawl: The Smaller Boats Carried by Slave Ships -- Temporary Deckhouses and Awnings -- The Slave Decks and Their Platforms -- Legislation and Its Impact on Platform Construction after 1788 -- Bulkheads below Decks: The Rooms -- Changes on the Main Deck -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 6. Witch Crafts: Slave Ships, Sailors, and African Cosmologies -- Dead Ancestors Walking: African Understandings of the Portuguese and Their Ships, c.1480-1550 -- Arts for Water Spirits: Mermaids and Mami Wata -- African Engagement with Ships' Figureheads -- Kalabari Ancestral Screens.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="505" ind1="8" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">'Shiplike' Harps from Sierra Leone -- Notes -- 7. 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Other Cargoes: Shipping Home the Productions of Africa -- Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century 'Ventures' in Gold -- Africa in the British Home -- Collecting Africa -- Exotic Animals: The Live Animal Trade -- Collecting Nature: The Slave Ship and the Naturalists -- Made at Sea: Sailors' Shell Craft -- The Extraordinary Biography of Mungo Park's Cowrie Shells -- Thomas Clarkson, Abolition and the 'Productions of Africa' -- Notes -- 9. Technologies of the Bodyon the Floating Pesthouse -- Difference Embodied: Race, Medicine, and the Black Body -- Preliminaries on the African Coast -- Branding -- 'A great slavery': The Preliminary Medical Examination of Captives -- Different Bodies: Observing African Bodily Modification -- Dealing with the Sick in Africa -- Medical Equipment -- Berthing the Sick on Board -- Coastal Deaths: Malaria and Yellow Fever among Slave Ship Crews -- Sickness Out at Sea -- Combatting-or Not Combatting-Overheating -- Middle Passage Deaths -- Battling the Bloody Flux -- Treating the Pox: Discourse and Practice -- 'Melancholia': Displacement Embodied -- Disposing of the Dead -- Conclusion: Children of the Salt Water -- Notes.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="505" ind1="8" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">10. 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Surviving the Middle Passage -- At the Extremes of the Spectrum: Insurrection and Suicide -- Insurrection -- Suicide -- Middle Passage Infrapolitics: Resistance below the Line -- Creative Arming -- The Weapons of Women-and Girls -- Liminal Boys: The Slave Ship's Mobile Males -- The Voice under Domination: Oral Communication between Captives -- Call-and-Response Revisited -- The Slave Ship's Dance(s) Revisited -- Spiritual Weapons: Small Things of Power -- The Middle Passage of African Things -- The Third Space of African 'Nakedness' -- Conclusion: Towards the 'Ship Family' -- Notes -- 12. 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| spelling | Webster, Jane, 1963- author. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjKDK6D4YxTc7Mbt6fG6Xd http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr98003974 Materializing the middle passage : a historical archaeology of British slave shipping, 1680-1807 / Jane Webster. Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2023] 1 online resource : illustrations. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Also issued in print: 2023. Includes bibliographical references and index. Jane Webster develops a pioneering approach to 'rebuilding' British slaving vessels, creating a new archaeology of the Middle Passage. The book also examines multiple sources and accounts, questioning why the African Middle Passage experience remains elusive, even after decades of scholarship dedicated to uncovering it. Specialized. Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 05, 2023). Cover -- Materializing the Middle Passage: A Historical Archaeology of British Slave Shipping, 1680-1807 -- Copyright -- Acknowledgements -- A note about images -- A note on the text -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Boxes -- Abbreviations -- 1. Materializing the Middle Passage: An Introduction in Three Objects -- Transcript and Discourse: Reading between the Lines of Elite Documents -- Empathy, Interpretation, and Context: Reading the Material Culture of Slave Shipping -- Middle Passage Outcomes: Modelling Saltwater Identities -- About the Rest of This Book -- Notes -- 2. The British Slave Trade: A Brief Overview -- The British Slave Trade, 1562-1807 -- Ports and People of the British Slave Trade -- Reading Southwell Frigate -- The Abolition of the British Slave Trade -- West Africa at the Time of the Slave Trade -- New World Destinations: Disembarkation Points for British Captives -- Notes -- 3. Voices from the Sea: Documentary Narratives of Middle Passage Voyages -- Slave Ship Crews -- Sea Journals -- Thomas Phillips on Hannibal (1693-4) -- Walter Prideaux on Daniel and Henry (1700) -- John Newton on Duke of Argyle (1750-1) -- Robert Norris on Unity (1769-71) -- Samuel Gamble on Sandown (1793-4) -- Memoirs Based on Sea Journals -- John Barbot and His Family (Writing 1678-1712) -- Robert Barker's 1774-5 Voyage on Thetis (published 1758) -- Henry Smeathman (Writing c.1775) -- William Butterworth's 1786-7 Voyage on Hudibras (published 1823) -- Hugh Crow 1807-8 Voyage on Kitty's Amelia (published 1830) -- The Parliamentary Inquiries of 1788-1792 -- Alexander Falconbridge, An Account of the Slave Trade (1788) -- John Newton, Thoughts upon the African Slave Trade (1788) -- James Stanfield, Observations on a Guinea Voyage (1788) -- Thomas Clarkson, Substance of the Evidence (1789) -- Testimonies before the House (1788-92). Asking Questions about the Slave Trade: The Clarkson Factor -- African Voices -- Notes -- 4. Artefacts from the Sea: Shipwrecks and Maritime Archaeology -- Maritime Archaeology and Slave Shipping -- The Excavated Wrecks -- Henrietta Marie (1700) -- Fredensborg (1768) -- Sea Horse (1728) -- Adélaïde (1714) -- The Elmina Wreck (Mid-Seventeenth Century) -- São José -- Clotilda (1860) -- The Ex-Slavers -- Whydah (Wrecked 1717) -- Queen Anne's Revenge (1718) -- James Matthews (1841) -- Possible Slaver Wrecks -- Conclusion: Wrecks as Sites of Memory -- Notes -- 5. Guineamen: Materializing the Merchant Slaver -- Introduction -- General Characteristics of Merchant Slavers -- Profile (Hull and Upper Deck) -- Hull Sheathing -- Rig -- Tonnage -- Hatchways and Gratings -- Gratings on the Measured Ships of 1788 -- Air Ports -- An Opportunity Largely Ignored: Hales's Ventilator -- Windsails -- Legislation and Slave Ship Design after 1788 -- Snapshots: Some British Slave Ships through Time -- The Seventeenth-Century Slaver -- Visualizing Hannibal: Excavating Thomas Phillips's 1693-4 Voyage Journal -- Henrietta Marie (constructed before 1697) -- Blandford Frigate (constructed 1719) -- Hall (built 1785) -- Visualizing 'Human Cargoes': Brooks (1787) -- The Metamorphosis -- Longboat, Pinnace, and Yawl: The Smaller Boats Carried by Slave Ships -- Temporary Deckhouses and Awnings -- The Slave Decks and Their Platforms -- Legislation and Its Impact on Platform Construction after 1788 -- Bulkheads below Decks: The Rooms -- Changes on the Main Deck -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 6. Witch Crafts: Slave Ships, Sailors, and African Cosmologies -- Dead Ancestors Walking: African Understandings of the Portuguese and Their Ships, c.1480-1550 -- Arts for Water Spirits: Mermaids and Mami Wata -- African Engagement with Ships' Figureheads -- Kalabari Ancestral Screens. 'Shiplike' Harps from Sierra Leone -- Notes -- 7. From Ship to Shore: Some Trade Goods and Their Biographies -- Assortment Bargaining -- Materializing Trade Goods -- Manufacturing for the Slave Trade -- Beads for the Slave Trade -- Shipping Beads: Evidence from the Shipwrecks -- Cotton Cloth for the Slave Trade -- Brass for the Slave Trade -- Shipping Brass: Metals from the Elmina Wreck -- African Lives: Trade Goods at Elmina and Savi/Ouidah -- The Afterlives and Impact of Trade Beads -- The Afterlives and Impact of Imported Textiles -- Red Gold Reworked: The Afterlives and Impact of Brasswares at Elmina -- Conclusion: Curated Lives -- Notes -- 8. Other Cargoes: Shipping Home the Productions of Africa -- Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century 'Ventures' in Gold -- Africa in the British Home -- Collecting Africa -- Exotic Animals: The Live Animal Trade -- Collecting Nature: The Slave Ship and the Naturalists -- Made at Sea: Sailors' Shell Craft -- The Extraordinary Biography of Mungo Park's Cowrie Shells -- Thomas Clarkson, Abolition and the 'Productions of Africa' -- Notes -- 9. Technologies of the Bodyon the Floating Pesthouse -- Difference Embodied: Race, Medicine, and the Black Body -- Preliminaries on the African Coast -- Branding -- 'A great slavery': The Preliminary Medical Examination of Captives -- Different Bodies: Observing African Bodily Modification -- Dealing with the Sick in Africa -- Medical Equipment -- Berthing the Sick on Board -- Coastal Deaths: Malaria and Yellow Fever among Slave Ship Crews -- Sickness Out at Sea -- Combatting-or Not Combatting-Overheating -- Middle Passage Deaths -- Battling the Bloody Flux -- Treating the Pox: Discourse and Practice -- 'Melancholia': Displacement Embodied -- Disposing of the Dead -- Conclusion: Children of the Salt Water -- Notes. 10. Discipline and Punish: A Material History of Middle Passage Practice -- Slave Ships, Prisons, and Convict Transportation -- Pidgins, Creoles, and 'Ship English' -- Slave Ship 'Jargon' -- Sailors' Calls-and-Responses -- A Middle Passage Day -- The Female Ordeal -- The Iron Regime: Shackles and Deck Chains -- Middle Passage Foodways -- Technologies for Force-Feeding -- Latrines and Washing: Personal Hygiene -- Enforced Exercise -- Technologies of Discipline and Punishment: The Cat -- Smoking -- 'Some little games' -- Stringing Beads -- Captive Labourers -- The Second Meal of the Day, and Its Aftermath -- A Middle Passage Night -- Disciplinary Artefacts: Clarkson's Chest Revisited -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 11. Surviving the Middle Passage -- At the Extremes of the Spectrum: Insurrection and Suicide -- Insurrection -- Suicide -- Middle Passage Infrapolitics: Resistance below the Line -- Creative Arming -- The Weapons of Women-and Girls -- Liminal Boys: The Slave Ship's Mobile Males -- The Voice under Domination: Oral Communication between Captives -- Call-and-Response Revisited -- The Slave Ship's Dance(s) Revisited -- Spiritual Weapons: Small Things of Power -- The Middle Passage of African Things -- The Third Space of African 'Nakedness' -- Conclusion: Towards the 'Ship Family' -- Notes -- 12. The Middle Passage Re-membered: A Conclusion in Three More Objects -- Materializing the 'Ship Family': Documentary Strategies -- Repositioning Olaudah Equiano's The Interesting Narrative -- John Rock's Scarification: Embodied Memory in the Diaspora -- From Bodies to Pipes: Scarified Things? -- Bioarchaeology and the Diaspora -- An African-Born Woman's Beads -- Re-Membering The Witch Craft: The African Middle Passage Today -- Notes -- References -- Index. Transatlantic slave trade History. Middle Passage. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2021008713 Africa. bisacsh HISTORY. bisacsh Naval. bisacsh Military. bisacsh SOCIAL SCIENCE. bisacsh Slavery. bisacsh Middle Passage fast Transatlantic slave trade fast Society & culture: general. thema Society. ukslc Electronic books. History fast Print version: Webster, Jane, 1963- Materializing the middle passage. Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2023] 9780191897450 |
| spellingShingle | Webster, Jane, 1963- Materializing the middle passage : a historical archaeology of British slave shipping, 1680-1807 / Cover -- Materializing the Middle Passage: A Historical Archaeology of British Slave Shipping, 1680-1807 -- Copyright -- Acknowledgements -- A note about images -- A note on the text -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Boxes -- Abbreviations -- 1. Materializing the Middle Passage: An Introduction in Three Objects -- Transcript and Discourse: Reading between the Lines of Elite Documents -- Empathy, Interpretation, and Context: Reading the Material Culture of Slave Shipping -- Middle Passage Outcomes: Modelling Saltwater Identities -- About the Rest of This Book -- Notes -- 2. The British Slave Trade: A Brief Overview -- The British Slave Trade, 1562-1807 -- Ports and People of the British Slave Trade -- Reading Southwell Frigate -- The Abolition of the British Slave Trade -- West Africa at the Time of the Slave Trade -- New World Destinations: Disembarkation Points for British Captives -- Notes -- 3. Voices from the Sea: Documentary Narratives of Middle Passage Voyages -- Slave Ship Crews -- Sea Journals -- Thomas Phillips on Hannibal (1693-4) -- Walter Prideaux on Daniel and Henry (1700) -- John Newton on Duke of Argyle (1750-1) -- Robert Norris on Unity (1769-71) -- Samuel Gamble on Sandown (1793-4) -- Memoirs Based on Sea Journals -- John Barbot and His Family (Writing 1678-1712) -- Robert Barker's 1774-5 Voyage on Thetis (published 1758) -- Henry Smeathman (Writing c.1775) -- William Butterworth's 1786-7 Voyage on Hudibras (published 1823) -- Hugh Crow 1807-8 Voyage on Kitty's Amelia (published 1830) -- The Parliamentary Inquiries of 1788-1792 -- Alexander Falconbridge, An Account of the Slave Trade (1788) -- John Newton, Thoughts upon the African Slave Trade (1788) -- James Stanfield, Observations on a Guinea Voyage (1788) -- Thomas Clarkson, Substance of the Evidence (1789) -- Testimonies before the House (1788-92). Asking Questions about the Slave Trade: The Clarkson Factor -- African Voices -- Notes -- 4. Artefacts from the Sea: Shipwrecks and Maritime Archaeology -- Maritime Archaeology and Slave Shipping -- The Excavated Wrecks -- Henrietta Marie (1700) -- Fredensborg (1768) -- Sea Horse (1728) -- Adélaïde (1714) -- The Elmina Wreck (Mid-Seventeenth Century) -- São José -- Clotilda (1860) -- The Ex-Slavers -- Whydah (Wrecked 1717) -- Queen Anne's Revenge (1718) -- James Matthews (1841) -- Possible Slaver Wrecks -- Conclusion: Wrecks as Sites of Memory -- Notes -- 5. Guineamen: Materializing the Merchant Slaver -- Introduction -- General Characteristics of Merchant Slavers -- Profile (Hull and Upper Deck) -- Hull Sheathing -- Rig -- Tonnage -- Hatchways and Gratings -- Gratings on the Measured Ships of 1788 -- Air Ports -- An Opportunity Largely Ignored: Hales's Ventilator -- Windsails -- Legislation and Slave Ship Design after 1788 -- Snapshots: Some British Slave Ships through Time -- The Seventeenth-Century Slaver -- Visualizing Hannibal: Excavating Thomas Phillips's 1693-4 Voyage Journal -- Henrietta Marie (constructed before 1697) -- Blandford Frigate (constructed 1719) -- Hall (built 1785) -- Visualizing 'Human Cargoes': Brooks (1787) -- The Metamorphosis -- Longboat, Pinnace, and Yawl: The Smaller Boats Carried by Slave Ships -- Temporary Deckhouses and Awnings -- The Slave Decks and Their Platforms -- Legislation and Its Impact on Platform Construction after 1788 -- Bulkheads below Decks: The Rooms -- Changes on the Main Deck -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 6. Witch Crafts: Slave Ships, Sailors, and African Cosmologies -- Dead Ancestors Walking: African Understandings of the Portuguese and Their Ships, c.1480-1550 -- Arts for Water Spirits: Mermaids and Mami Wata -- African Engagement with Ships' Figureheads -- Kalabari Ancestral Screens. 'Shiplike' Harps from Sierra Leone -- Notes -- 7. From Ship to Shore: Some Trade Goods and Their Biographies -- Assortment Bargaining -- Materializing Trade Goods -- Manufacturing for the Slave Trade -- Beads for the Slave Trade -- Shipping Beads: Evidence from the Shipwrecks -- Cotton Cloth for the Slave Trade -- Brass for the Slave Trade -- Shipping Brass: Metals from the Elmina Wreck -- African Lives: Trade Goods at Elmina and Savi/Ouidah -- The Afterlives and Impact of Trade Beads -- The Afterlives and Impact of Imported Textiles -- Red Gold Reworked: The Afterlives and Impact of Brasswares at Elmina -- Conclusion: Curated Lives -- Notes -- 8. Other Cargoes: Shipping Home the Productions of Africa -- Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century 'Ventures' in Gold -- Africa in the British Home -- Collecting Africa -- Exotic Animals: The Live Animal Trade -- Collecting Nature: The Slave Ship and the Naturalists -- Made at Sea: Sailors' Shell Craft -- The Extraordinary Biography of Mungo Park's Cowrie Shells -- Thomas Clarkson, Abolition and the 'Productions of Africa' -- Notes -- 9. Technologies of the Bodyon the Floating Pesthouse -- Difference Embodied: Race, Medicine, and the Black Body -- Preliminaries on the African Coast -- Branding -- 'A great slavery': The Preliminary Medical Examination of Captives -- Different Bodies: Observing African Bodily Modification -- Dealing with the Sick in Africa -- Medical Equipment -- Berthing the Sick on Board -- Coastal Deaths: Malaria and Yellow Fever among Slave Ship Crews -- Sickness Out at Sea -- Combatting-or Not Combatting-Overheating -- Middle Passage Deaths -- Battling the Bloody Flux -- Treating the Pox: Discourse and Practice -- 'Melancholia': Displacement Embodied -- Disposing of the Dead -- Conclusion: Children of the Salt Water -- Notes. 10. Discipline and Punish: A Material History of Middle Passage Practice -- Slave Ships, Prisons, and Convict Transportation -- Pidgins, Creoles, and 'Ship English' -- Slave Ship 'Jargon' -- Sailors' Calls-and-Responses -- A Middle Passage Day -- The Female Ordeal -- The Iron Regime: Shackles and Deck Chains -- Middle Passage Foodways -- Technologies for Force-Feeding -- Latrines and Washing: Personal Hygiene -- Enforced Exercise -- Technologies of Discipline and Punishment: The Cat -- Smoking -- 'Some little games' -- Stringing Beads -- Captive Labourers -- The Second Meal of the Day, and Its Aftermath -- A Middle Passage Night -- Disciplinary Artefacts: Clarkson's Chest Revisited -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 11. Surviving the Middle Passage -- At the Extremes of the Spectrum: Insurrection and Suicide -- Insurrection -- Suicide -- Middle Passage Infrapolitics: Resistance below the Line -- Creative Arming -- The Weapons of Women-and Girls -- Liminal Boys: The Slave Ship's Mobile Males -- The Voice under Domination: Oral Communication between Captives -- Call-and-Response Revisited -- The Slave Ship's Dance(s) Revisited -- Spiritual Weapons: Small Things of Power -- The Middle Passage of African Things -- The Third Space of African 'Nakedness' -- Conclusion: Towards the 'Ship Family' -- Notes -- 12. The Middle Passage Re-membered: A Conclusion in Three More Objects -- Materializing the 'Ship Family': Documentary Strategies -- Repositioning Olaudah Equiano's The Interesting Narrative -- John Rock's Scarification: Embodied Memory in the Diaspora -- From Bodies to Pipes: Scarified Things? -- Bioarchaeology and the Diaspora -- An African-Born Woman's Beads -- Re-Membering The Witch Craft: The African Middle Passage Today -- Notes -- References -- Index. Transatlantic slave trade History. Middle Passage. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2021008713 Africa. bisacsh HISTORY. bisacsh Naval. bisacsh Military. bisacsh SOCIAL SCIENCE. bisacsh Slavery. bisacsh Middle Passage fast Transatlantic slave trade fast Society & culture: general. thema Society. ukslc |
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| title | Materializing the middle passage : a historical archaeology of British slave shipping, 1680-1807 / |
| title_auth | Materializing the middle passage : a historical archaeology of British slave shipping, 1680-1807 / |
| title_exact_search | Materializing the middle passage : a historical archaeology of British slave shipping, 1680-1807 / |
| title_full | Materializing the middle passage : a historical archaeology of British slave shipping, 1680-1807 / Jane Webster. |
| title_fullStr | Materializing the middle passage : a historical archaeology of British slave shipping, 1680-1807 / Jane Webster. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Materializing the middle passage : a historical archaeology of British slave shipping, 1680-1807 / Jane Webster. |
| title_short | Materializing the middle passage : |
| title_sort | materializing the middle passage a historical archaeology of british slave shipping 1680 1807 |
| title_sub | a historical archaeology of British slave shipping, 1680-1807 / |
| topic | Transatlantic slave trade History. Middle Passage. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2021008713 Africa. bisacsh HISTORY. bisacsh Naval. bisacsh Military. bisacsh SOCIAL SCIENCE. bisacsh Slavery. bisacsh Middle Passage fast Transatlantic slave trade fast Society & culture: general. thema Society. ukslc |
| topic_facet | Transatlantic slave trade History. Middle Passage. Africa. HISTORY. Naval. Military. SOCIAL SCIENCE. Slavery. Middle Passage Transatlantic slave trade Society & culture: general. Society. Electronic books. History |
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