ISBN
9781469675916
Publication Date
2023
Price
29.95
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Abstract
Grounded in extensive archival research on both sides of the Atlantic, Captivity's Collections mines scientific treatises, slaving companies' records, naturalists' correspondence, and museum catalogs to recover in rich detail the scope of the slave trade's collecting operations. The book reveals the scientific and natural historical profit derived from these activities and the crucial role of specimens gathered along the routes of the slave trade on emerging ideas in natural history.
DOI
10.31390/cwbr.26.3.04
Recommended Citation
Keiser, Kennon H. Jr.
(2024)
"Captivity’s Collections: Science, Natural History, and the British Transatlantic Slave Trade,"
Civil War Book Review: Vol. 26
:
Iss.
3
.
DOI: 10.31390/cwbr.26.3.04
Available at:
https://repository.lsu.edu/cwbr/vol26/iss3/4
