Stephanie Smallwood's Saltwater Slavery

  Focus your comments this week on Stephanie Smallwood's Saltwater Slavery (you read Chapters 3 & 4) by addressing the questions below: What did Smallwood mean by the "political economy of the slave ship" (chapter 3)? What kinds of calculations went into determining how many captives a ship could carry? How did this quantitative view differ from the perceptions of African captives themselves? How did African captives navigate the world of the slave ship?