VIS 127B Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Triangular Trade, Cowry, Manumission
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It was a requirement of the job and the larger economic system it served -rediker, 217: there needs to be incentive. One ship/different destinies: captain"s cabin vs human cargo, captain"s cabin isolated authority, power, would take some slave women as concubines, human cargo spooning , close tight quarters. First female slave narrative from americas by mary prince, west indian slave: the idea of writing mary prince"s history was rst suggested by herself. She wished it to be done, she said, so that good people in england might hear from a slave what a slave had felt and suffered : rst-person account written down by british abolitionists and disseminated through london. Household based slavery: more rigidly gendered: cooking, nursing, cleaning, washing, taking care of animals, ministering to personal and sexual needs of owner, treated like women but still not like white women.
