Medicine and Healing in the Age of Slavery by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780807171219
Goodreads: 57801494
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 2021-11-10T00:00:00+00:00

NOTES

1. “Medical log of the slave-ship ‘Lord Stanley’ kept by Christopher Bowes,” 1792, MS0003, The Royal College of Surgeons of England (cited hereafter as RCS), London; Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, 2019, accessed March 1, 2021, Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, https://www.slavevoyages.org/voyages/KUWwEbej; Marcus Rediker, The Slave Ship: A Human History (New York: Penguin, 2007), 402–3 n. 26; Sowande’ Mustakeem, Slavery at Sea: Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2016), 130. Under the Slave Trade Act of 1788, slave ship surgeons were guaranteed a premium for maintaining a mortality rate of less than 2 percent. See Richard Sheridan, “The Guinea Surgeons on the Middle Passage: The Provision of Medical Services in the British Slave Trade,” International Journal of African Historical Studies 14, no. 4 (1981): 610.

2. Sowande’ Mustakeem, “‘She must go overboard & shall go overboard’: Diseased Bodies and the Spectacle of Murder at Sea,” Atlantic Studies 8, no. 3 (2011): 310.

3. “Medical log,” 1792, MS0003, RCS, London.

4. On enslaved women and feigning illness: Kenneth Stampp, The Peculiar Institution (1956; New York: Vintage Books, 1989), 103–4; Deborah Gray White, Ar’n’t I a Woman? Female Slaves in the Plantation South (1985; New York: W. W. Norton and Co., 1999), 79–89. I use “feigned illness” instead of “malinger” because “malinger” was not widely used until 1785. Malingering does not have an equivalent in French or most other western European languages. Before the late eighteenth century, English authors described enslaved people who engaged in “dissembled,” “affected,” “pretended,” or “feigned” illness. French authors usually used the verbs contrafaire (counterfeit), or feindre (pretend or feign), or they emphasized the difference between the ill and the paresseux (lazy). Oxford English Dictionary online, s.v. “malinger, v.,” accessed October 16, 2018, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/112944?redirectedFrom=malinger.

5. Alice Bauer and Raymond Bauer, “Day to Day Resistance to Slavery,” Journal of Negro History 27, no. 4 (October 1942): 406–14. For a summary of this scholarship, see Cedrick Robinson, Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition (1983; Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000), 123–25; Walter Johnson, “On Agency,” Journal of Social History 37, no. 1 (2003): 113–24.

6. James C. Scott, Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1985); Stampp, The Peculiar Institution.

7. Stampp, The Peculiar Institution, 280; Angela Davis, “Reflections on the Black Woman’s Role in the Community of Slaves,” Black Scholar 3 (December 1971): 2–16; Darlene Clark Hine, “Female Slave Resistance: The Economics of Sex,” Western Journal of Black Studies 3, no. 2 (1979): 123–27; White, Ar’n’t I a Woman?; Lucille Mathurin Mair, A Historical Study of Women in Jamaica, 1655–1844 (1974; Kingston: University of the West Indies Press, 2006); Arlette Gautier, Les Soeurs de solitude: Femmes et esclavage aux Antilles du xviie au xixe siècle (1985; Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2010), 197–229; Barbara Bush, Slave Women in Caribbean Society, 1650–1838 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990), 61–62; David Barry Gaspar and Darline Clark Hine, eds., More Than Chattel: Black Women and Slavery in the Americas (Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 1996).

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