The Middle Passage
FromPreviousLecture earlyera
Disease defined contactexchange andviolence 1492 1820
Disease both
biologicaland social
MiddlePassage Objects of value
textiles sugarand enslaved African
began in 1525andincreased for 4
decades
Statistics tMore
10 16MillionAfricans
2Milliondied IO 15
34 948 documentedvoyages
transatlanticslave
trade
largestlong distance course
7people
AfricanLabor basis of cultural resource explotation
sugar plantations 213 of all slaves
seen as an industrythat faculutated successful operation
of the human manufacturing process
sailors suergons captains revealingthe
unmade slaves bodiesthrough dynamics of
physical emotional and psychological power
conditioning
opublic health also involved in theassultofslaves
all ofthis becamecentral to the climateIenviormentofterrorat sea
existence on theships was aperpetual crisis critical
unevenpowerdynamics
avalibility1distribution of rea
sources Cash Effinthectron
