Slavery at SeaMost times left solely within the confine of plantation narratives, slavery was far from a land based phenomenon. This book reveals for the first time how it took critical shape at sea. Expanding the gaze even more deeply, the book centers how the oceanic transport of human cargoes infamously known as the Middle Passage comprised a violently regulated process foundational to the institution of bondage. Sowande' Mustakeem's groundbreaking study goes