Bodies of Water:

Season One

Episode 1

Bodies, Violence, and the Middle Passage

If you enjoyed our conversation on Sowande' M. Mustakeem's Slavery at Sea and would like to learn more about the Middle Passage check out these works!

Philip D. Curtain, The Atlantic Slave Trade: A Census (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1969).

Eric Taylor, If We Must Die: Shipboard Insurrections in the Era of the Atlantic Slave Trade (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006).

Stephanie Smallwood, Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007).

Marcus Rediker, The Slave Ship: A Human History (New York: Viking Press, 2008).

Gender, Reproduction, & Slavery in the Caribbean

Episode 2

If you enjoyed our conversation on Sasha Turner's Contested Bodies and would like to learn more check out these works!

Deborah Gray White, Ar’n’t I a Woman: Female Slaves in the Plantation South (New York: Norton, 1985).

Jennifer Morgan, Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004).

Marie Jenkins Schwartz, Birthing a Slave: Motherhood and Medicine in the Antebellum South (Mass: Harvard University Press, 2010).

Dierdre Cooper Owens, Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2018).

Empire and Indigenous Medicine

Episode 3

If you enjoyed our conversation on Martha Few's For All of Humanity and would like to learn more check out these works!

Noble David Cook, Born to Die: Disease and New World Conquest, 1492-1650 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998).

Adam Warren, Medicine and Politics in Colonial Peru: Population Growth and the Bourbon Reforms (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010).

Pablo F. Gómez, The Experiential Caribbean: Creating Knowledge and Healing in the Early Modern Atlantic (North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 2017).

Paul E. Ramírez, Enlightenment Immunity: Mexico’s Experiments with Disease Prevention in the Age of Reason (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2018).

Enslaved Healers in the Age of Revolution

Episode 4

If you enjoyed our conversation on Karol Weaver's Medical Revolutionaries and would like to learn more check out these works!

Richard B. Sheridan, Doctors and Slaves: A Medical and Demographic History of Slavery in the British West Indies, 1680-1834 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985).

Hilary Beckles, Natural Rebels: A Social History of Enslaved Black Women in Barbados (New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1989).

James E. McClellan III, Colonialism and Science: Saint Domingue in the Old Regime (Illinois: University of Chicago Press, 1992).