The slave ship’s overcrowding systematically stripped captives of personhood.

Evidence

The second dark of night fell as tortures and the deterioration of person, the result of so many incredible Gehennas. Imagine two hundred hurnan beings crarnrned into a space barely capable of containing a third of them. Imagine vomit, naked fIesh, swarming lice, the dead slumped, the dying crouched. Imagine, ifyou can, the swirling red ofmounting to the deck, the ramp they clirnbed, the black sun on the horizon, vertigo, *The Slave Trade came through the cramped doorway of the slave ship, leaving a wake like that of crawling de sert caravans. — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 86

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘deterioration of person’ parallels Césaire’s and Fanon’s account of colonization as dehumanization, which feeds Foucault’s influence chain relevant to the reader. — connects to: The slave condition dissolves personhood into property, making a life a thing possessed. — Achille Mbembe, Necropolitics, 65; Terrorization aboard slave ships forced Africans to adopt the slave identity. — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 58

Broader Connections

• The slave condition dissolves personhood into property, making a life a thing possessed. #expands (0.90) — Achille Mbembe, Necropolitics, 65
• Terrorization aboard slave ships forced Africans to adopt the slave identity. #expands (0.82) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 58