Black Atlantic maritime networks, resistance and the American 'domestic' slave trade

This article on the formation and operation of maritime networks of resistance and solidarity during the United States 'domestic' coastal slave trade contributes to the history of Atlantic maritime radicalism in the Age of Revolution. After 1807, the legal trans-shipment of enslaved people from the Chesapeake to the antebellum slave markets enclosed the seas along the Atlantic seaboard and into the Gulf of Mexico. The legal, geopolitical and physical limitations of slavery at sea turned the Florida Straits - a densely trafficked maritime chokepoint - into a contested space. Rather than viewing this globally significant maritime space as primarily a site of contestation between British imperial sovereignty and US internecine national politics, the focus is on the undercurrents of collective black Atlantic political action, memory and connection that shaped the Straits as a transnational maritime route from slavery to freedom

Atlantic slave trade · Atlantic World · Black sea · Geography · Geopolitics · International waters · Political science · Politics · Solidarity · Sovereignty · Colonial History and Postcolonial Studies · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · History · Law · Race, History, and American Society · Oceanography

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