Publication
Durham : Duke University Press, 2021.
ISBN
9781478021452
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CONTENTS
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Refusing Demography
1. Producing Numbers: Reckoning with the Sex: Ratio in the Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1500–1700
2. “Unfit Subjects of Trade”: Demographic Logics and Colonial Encounters
3. “To Their Great Commoditie”: Numeracy and the Production of African Difference
4. Accounting for the “Most Excruciating Torment”: Transatlantic Passages
5. “The Division of the Captives”: Commerce and Kinship in the English Americas
6. “Treacherous Rogues”: Locating Women in Resistance and Revolt
Conclusion. Madness
Bibliography
Index
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Refusing Demography
1. Producing Numbers: Reckoning with the Sex: Ratio in the Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1500–1700
2. “Unfit Subjects of Trade”: Demographic Logics and Colonial Encounters
3. “To Their Great Commoditie”: Numeracy and the Production of African Difference
4. Accounting for the “Most Excruciating Torment”: Transatlantic Passages
5. “The Division of the Captives”: Commerce and Kinship in the English Americas
6. “Treacherous Rogues”: Locating Women in Resistance and Revolt
Conclusion. Madness
Bibliography
Index
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