commodification of human beings in the Liverpool slave trade, vividly depicting the long journeys endured by Africans in Africa …

"In the mid-nineteenth century, U.S. slavery was characterized by relentless expansion and unrelenting exportation, not … only of commodities but also of ideas. Zach Sell traces U.S. slavery's significance to colonial land-based dispossessions … on a global scale, showing how slavery molded the United States as an empire-state while other imperial powers looked to …