Throughout the Atlantic trade in human cargoe, children were cap-tured, purchased, transported, and later born into the institution of enslavement. At various times young girls and boys formed a signi-ficant number of the captives transported to the New World. Those children that survived the Middle Passage, seasoning, birth, abuse and outbreaks of disease ultimately contributed to and were assets to various features of the institution, including but not limited to the maintenance of a labor force. Although the historiographical record on the enslaved in the Caribbean contains a plethora of...
Throughout the Atlantic trade in human cargoe, children were cap-tured, purchased, transported, and later born into the institution of enslavement. At...