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Winner of the Frederick Douglass Book Prize, Saltwater Slavery recreates the slave trade through the eyes of enslaved African people. This work of historical nonfiction shows the physical and psychological damage of the commodification process on captives and the normalization of this process by the individuals associated with and involved in the slave trade.

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