Jennifer L. Morgan draws on the lived experiences of enslaved African women in the sixteenth- and seventeenth-centuries to reveal the contours of early modern notions of trade, race, and commodification in the Black Atlantic.

Preface  ix
Acknowledgments  xi
Introduction. Refusing Demography  1
1. Producing Numbers: Reckoning with the Sex Ratio in the Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1500–1700  29
2. "Unfit Subjects of Trade": Demographic Logics and Colonial Encounters  55
3. "To Their Great Commoditie": Numeracy and the Production of African Difference  110
4. Accounting for the "Most Excruciating Torment": Transatlantic Passages  141
5. "The Division of the Captives": Commerce and Kinship in the English Americas  170
6. "Treacherous Rogues": Locating Women in Resistance and Revolt  207
Conclusion. Madness  245
Bibliography  257
Index  283