The status or condition of a person over whom any or all of the powers attaching to the right of ownership are exercised. The slave trade is all acts involved in the capture, acquisition or disposal of persons with intent to reduce them to enslavement; all acts involved in the acquisition of enslaved persons with a view to selling or exchanging them; all acts of disposal by sale or exchange of persons acquired with a view to being sold or exchanged, and, in general, every act of trade or transport of slaves. (from http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Publications/slaveryen.pdf accessed 10/18/2012)
    

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Narrative of a five years' expedition. J. Stedman, 1796.

Enslavement

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Catalogue

Colonial complexions : race and bodies in eighteenth-century America / Sharon Block.

Masters of health : racial science and slavery in U.S. medical schools / Christopher D.E. Willoughby.

The yellow demon of fever : fighting disease in the nineteenth-century transatlantic slave trade / Manuel Barcia.

Blood and earth : modern slavery, ecocide, and the secret to saving the world / Kevin Bales.

The social life of DNA : race, reparations, and reconciliation after the genome / Alondra Nelson.