Jane Webster is Senior Lecturer in Historical Archaeology at Newcastle University. She received her PhD from Edinburgh University in 1991 and from 1992-1999 taught at the School of Archaeology and Ancient History at the University of Leicester, before moving to Newcastle in 2004. In between University posts, Jane was awarded a Caird Senior Research Fellowship at the National Maritime Museum in 2001; Materializing the Middle Passage originated there.

This is a well-researched, thorough, and detailed volume, supplemented with illustrations, maps, and copious references. Highly recommended.

• Acknowledgements I: Preliminaries 1: Materializing the Middle Passage: An Introduction in Three Objects 2: The British Slave Trade: A Brief Overview II: The Evidence Bases 3: Voices from the Sea: Documentary Narratives of Middle Passage Voyages 4: Artefacts from the Sea: Shipwrecks and Maritime Archaeology 5: Guineamen: Materializing the Merchant Slaver III: On the African Coast 6: Witch Crafts: Slave Ships, Sailors, and African Cosmologies 7: From Ship to Shore: Some Trade Goods and Their Biographies IV: The Atlantic crossing 8: Other Cargoes: Shipping Home the Productions of Africa 9: Technologies of the Body on the Floating Pesthouse 10: Discipline and Punish: A Material History of Middle Passage Practice 11: Surviving the Middle Passage V: Conclusion 12: The Middle Passage Re-Membered: A Conclusion in Three Objects

Jane Webster is Senior Lecturer in Historical Archaeology at Newcastle University. She received her PhD from Edinburgh University in 1991 and from 1992-1999 taught at the School of Archaeology and Ancient History at the University of Leicester, before moving to Newcastle in 2004. In between University posts, Jane was awarded a Caird Senior Research Fellowship at the National Maritime Museum in 2001; Materializing the Middle Passage originated there.

This is a well-researched, thorough, and detailed volume, supplemented with illustrations, maps, and copious references. Highly recommended.

• Acknowledgements I: Preliminaries 1: Materializing the Middle Passage: An Introduction in Three Objects 2: The British Slave Trade: A Brief Overview II: The Evidence Bases 3: Voices from the Sea: Documentary Narratives of Middle Passage Voyages 4: Artefacts from the Sea: Shipwrecks and Maritime Archaeology 5: Guineamen: Materializing the Merchant Slaver III: On the African Coast 6: Witch Crafts: Slave Ships, Sailors, and African Cosmologies 7: From Ship to Shore: Some Trade Goods and Their Biographies IV: The Atlantic crossing 8: Other Cargoes: Shipping Home the Productions of Africa 9: Technologies of the Body on the Floating Pesthouse 10: Discipline and Punish: A Material History of Middle Passage Practice 11: Surviving the Middle Passage V: Conclusion 12: The Middle Passage Re-Membered: A Conclusion in Three Objects

Jane Webster is Senior Lecturer in Historical Archaeology at Newcastle University. She received her PhD from Edinburgh University in 1991 and from 1992-1999 taught at the School of Archaeology and Ancient History at the University of Leicester, before moving to Newcastle in 2004. In between University posts, Jane was awarded a Caird Senior Research Fellowship at the National Maritime Museum in 2001; Materializing the Middle Passage originated there.

This is a well-researched, thorough, and detailed volume, supplemented with illustrations, maps, and copious references. Highly recommended.

• Acknowledgements I: Preliminaries 1: Materializing the Middle Passage: An Introduction in Three Objects 2: The British Slave Trade: A Brief Overview II: The Evidence Bases 3: Voices from the Sea: Documentary Narratives of Middle Passage Voyages 4: Artefacts from the Sea: Shipwrecks and Maritime Archaeology 5: Guineamen: Materializing the Merchant Slaver III: On the African Coast 6: Witch Crafts: Slave Ships, Sailors, and African Cosmologies 7: From Ship to Shore: Some Trade Goods and Their Biographies IV: The Atlantic crossing 8: Other Cargoes: Shipping Home the Productions of Africa 9: Technologies of the Body on the Floating Pesthouse 10: Discipline and Punish: A Material History of Middle Passage Practice 11: Surviving the Middle Passage V: Conclusion 12: The Middle Passage Re-Membered: A Conclusion in Three Objects