[(Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora)] [Author: Stephanie E. Smallwood] published on (September, 2008)

Stephanie Smallwood offers a penetrating look at the process of enslavement from its African origins through the Middle Passage and into the American slave market. Her story in animated by deep research and gives us a startingly graphic experience of the slave trade from the vantage point of the slaves themselves.