(Answered) : Saltwater Slavery Discussion 1

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In Saltwater Slavery, Stephanie Smallwood attempts to reconstruct the Atlantic slave trade from the perspective of Africans. For example, she argues that enslaved people leaving Africa had little idea where they were being taken or what was to be required of them when they arrived. Thus, to talk about the Atlantic slave ship experience as the “middle passage” does not correspond to the lived experiences of slaves themselves. Still, a major challenge Smallwood faced in writing this book was that she was limited by sources. Very few accounts of the slaves themselves exist today. Instead, she had to