Slavery's Archive and theMatter of Black Atlantic Lives.

Slavery; Slave trade; Smallwood, Stephanie E.; Hartman, Saidiya; Newman, Simon P.; Quantitative research; Historiography

The article reflects on contextualizing Black lives in light of articles on the history of slavery and the Atlantic slave trade by Stephanie E. Smallwood, Saidiya Hartman and Simon P. Newman. Topics discussed include the emphasis of Hartman on engaging the archive of slavery in the context of Black death, questions raised by the reproduction of archival representations of enslaved people as quantitative data, and tendency of historiography to deny the existence of slavery in Great Britain.