Interpretations of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

Interpretations of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

Required:
 Marcus Rediker, The Slave Ship: A Human History.
Dr. Marcus Rediker: The Slave Ship/Ghost Ship (A Human History)

 John Thornton, Africans and Afro-Americans in the Atlantic World, pp. 152-162.
 David Eltis, “The Volume and Structure of the Transatlantic Slave Trade: A Reassessment,” William and Mary Quarterly, 58 (2001), pp. 17-46 (30 pages). J-stor
Recommended:
 Michael A. Gomez, Exchanging Our Country Marks: The Transformation of African Identities in the Colonial and Antebellum South (1998), Ch. 7.
 Joseph Miller, Way of Death: Merchant Capitalism and the Angolan Slave Trade, 1730-1830.
 Stephanie Smallwood, Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora.
 Robert Harms, The Diligent: A Voyage through the Worlds of the Slave Trade

To Think About ~ How do today’s authors differ in their methodologies? What sorts of questions does each attempt to address? In what ways do their divergent interpretations inform our understanding of the wide-ranging effects of the transatlantic slave trade – demographically, psychologically, etc?