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FA-51932-05 Fellowships for University Teachers Research Programs
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Totals: $40,000 (approved)$40,000 (awarded)
Grant period: 9/1/2005 – 5/31/2006
I propose a history of the slave ship. I will investigate the material evolution of this world-transforming technology, concentrating on the British and American slave trade of the eighteenth century and the ship's role in Atlantic economic development. I will also analyze the slave ship as a stage for the enactment of four great dramas of the age: relations between captain and crew; between the crew and the enslaved; among the enslaved themselves; and finally between abolitionists and pro-slavery advocates over how the middle passage and the ship itself would be represented in public debate.