"The trade in women was a fundamental component of the global slave trade. Markets from the Mediterranean to Southeast Asia were stocked with women who had been uprooted from their homelands, their value determined by a complex calculus of youth, beauty, and perceived exoticism that reflected the vast geographic reach of the trading networks." — Sexuality and Slavery: Reclaiming Intimate Histories in the Americas (2018), edited by Daina Ramey Berry and Leslie M. Harris














