Materializing the Middle Passage: A Historical Archaeology of British Slave Shipping, 1680-1807

by Webster

An estimated 2.7 million Africans made an enforced crossing of the Atlantic on British slave ships between c.1680 and 1807--a journey that has become known as the 'Middle Passage'. This book focuses on the slave ship itself. The slave ship is the largest artefact of the Transatlantic slave trade, but because so few examples of wrecked slaving vessels have been located at sea, it is rarely studied by archaeologists. Materializing the Middle Passage:...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019921459X
• ISBN13: 9780199214594
• Release Date: March 2024
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 2.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 7.3" x 9.3"