They draw on a plethora of testimonies by participants in the slave trade – ship captains, merchants, agents along the west African coast – and on information gathered by British parliamentary committees. This approach can now be carried out comprehensively with the statistics assembled for the freely available Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database ( Other interpretations of the Middle Passage concentrate more on the human misery involved in the shipment of Africans across the ocean. Some academic studies are concerned primarily with the numbers and quantitative flow of the enslaved during the Middle Passage. From the abolitionist campaigners against the slave trade in late eighteenth-century Britain, to modern academic books and to information gathered by supporters for reparations regarding slavery, thousands of pages of evidence and analyses on the Middle Passage are available both for specialists and the educated public to read and ponder. To write a book on the Middle Passage, the forced migration of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic to the Americas, is not to enter virgin territory. Publisher: Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2016.
She has published scholarship in numerous journals, including North Carolina Historical Review, Atlantic Studies, and Journal of African American History, and she serves as Director for Washington University’s Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society.SLAVERY AT SEA: TERROR, SEX, AND SICKNESS IN THE MIDDLE PASSAGE Her first book, Slavery at Sea: Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage, was released in 2016 on University of Illinois Press, and her chapter “Blood Stained Mirrors: Decoding the American Slave Trading Past” appeared in the edited volume, Understanding and Teaching American Slavery (University of Wisconsin Press, 2016). from Michigan State University, and she currently serves as Associate Professor of History and African and African American Studies at Washington University in St. from Ohio State University, and her Ph.D. Mustakeem’s critically acclaimed book, Slavery at Sea: Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage (University of Illinois Press, 2016).
For the second installment of Kinder Postdoctoral Fellow in History Billy Coleman’s Spring 2017 “Playing the Past” community seminar, held on April 20 in Jesse Hall 410, Washington University Associate Professor of History Sowande’ Mustakeem and her percussion band Amalghemy performed and discussed selections from their recent collaboration, a first-of-a-kind musical soundtrack for Prof.
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