Accounting for “The Most Excruciating Torment”: Gender, Slavery, and Trans-Atlantic Passages

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Research Article| October 01 2016 Accounting for “The Most Excruciating Torment”: Gender, Slavery, and Trans-Atlantic Passages Jennifer L. Morgan Jennifer L. Morgan Jennifer L. Morgan is the author of Laboring Women: Gender and Reproduction in the Making of New World Slavery (2004). Her research examines the intersections of gender and race in the early Atlantic World. She is at work on a project that considers colonial numeracy, racism, and the rise of the trans-Atlantic slave trade in the seventeenth-century English Atlantic, tentatively titled Accounting for the Women in Slavery. She is Professor of History in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis and the Department of History at New York University and lives in New York City. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of the Present (2016) 6 (2): 184–207. https://doi.org/10.5406/historypresent.6.2.0184 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Jennifer L. Morgan; Accounting for “The Most Excruciating Torment”: Gender, Slavery, and Trans-Atlantic Passages. History of the Present 1 October 2016; 6 (2): 184–207. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/historypresent.6.2.0184 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search Books & JournalsAll JournalsHistory of the Present Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright © 2016 University of Illinois Press2016 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal Issue Section: Articles You do not currently have access to this content.