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Captivity's Collections

Cashews from Africa’s Gold Coast, butterflies from Sierra Leone, jalap root from Veracruz, shells from Jamaica—in the eighteenth century, these specimens from faraway corners of the Atlantic were tucked away onboard inhumane British slaving vessels. Kathleen S. Murphy argues that the era’s explosion...

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Príomhchruthaitheoir: Murphy, Kathleen S.
Formáid: Online
Teanga:Béarla
Foilsithe / Cruthaithe: The University of North Carolina Press 2026
Ábhair:
Eighteenth-century British slave trade
Natural history
History of science and medicine
Early modern Atlantic World
Atlantic slavery
Legacies of slavery and the slave trade
Natural historical collecting
Atlantic History
Slavery studies
Collectors and collecting
Museum studies
Transatlantic slave trade
Natural history museums
British colonialism and science
History of natural history and biological sciences
History of collecting
Maritime history
Imperialism and colonialism
Science and commerce
Science and empire
Natural knowledge production
Enslaved collectors
Scientific profits of the slave trade
History of museums
Colonial British America and the Caribbean
West and West Central Africa
Slave ship surgeons
Slave ships
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTS Slavery and abolition of slavery
thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences::PSA Life sciences: general issues::PSAF Ecological science, the Biosphere
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