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03412aam a22004578a 4500 001 4F5EBEC4B50611EEB233F11920ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240117010048 008 230502s2023 ncu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2023020737 020 $a 1469675919 020 $a 9781469675916 020 $a 1469675900 020 $a 9781469675909 040 $a NcU/DLC $b eng $c DLC $d DLC $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a l------ $a l------ 050 00 $a QH21.G7 $b M87 2023 082 00 $a 508.0941 $2 23/eng/20230602 084 $a SCI100000 $a SCI100000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Murphy, Kathleen S. 245 10 $a Captivity's collections : $b science, natural history, and the British transatlantic slave trade / $c Kathleen S. Murphy. 260 $a Chapel Hill : $b The University of North Carolina Press, $c [2023] 263 $a 2310 300 $a p. cm. 490 1 $a Flows, migrations, and exchanges 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Cannot on These Coasts Gather Amiss -- Collecting for the Company -- The Asiento's Natural Historical Profits -- Botany under the Cover of the Slave Trade -- Searching for Goliath -- A Flycatcher among Slave Traders. 520 $a "Cashews from Africa's Gold Coast, butterflies from Sierra Leone, jalap root from Veracruz, shells from Jamaica--in the eighteenth century, these specimens from faraway corners of the Atlantic were tucked away onboard inhumane British slaving vessels. Kathleen S. Murphy argues that the era's explosion of new natural knowledge was deeply connected to the circulation of individuals, objects, and ideas through the networks of the British transatlantic slave trade. Plants, seeds, preserved animals and insects, and other specimens were gathered by British slave ship surgeons, mariners, and traders at slaving factories in West Africa, in ports where captive Africans disembarked, and near the British South Sea Company's trading factories in Spanish America. The specimens were displayed in British museums and herbaria, depicted in published natural histories, and discussed in the halls of scientific societies. 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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Natural history $z Great Britain $x History $y 18th century. 650 0 $a Natural history $z Atlantic Ocean Region $x History $y 18th century. 650 0 $a Biological specimens $x History $z Great Britain $x History $y 18th century. 650 0 $a Biological specimens $x History $z Atlantic Ocean Region $x History $y 18th century. 650 0 $a Transatlantic slave trade $x History $y 18th century. 650 0 $a Slave trade $z Great Britain $x History $y 18th century. 650 7 $a HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a SCIENCE / Natural History $2 bisacsh 830 0 $a Flows, migrations, and exchanges. 941 $a 1 952 $l ZKPC437 $d 20240117014511.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=4F5EBEC4B50611EEB233F11920ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search