Considers the lives of enslaved African women in the 16th and 17th centuries. The work centers enslaved women’s worldviews and explores how they understood their inclusion in the racializing logics of enslavement and reproduction. Morgan articulates how early modern ideas of numeracy, value, and commodification in the Atlantic co-constituted African women’s understanding of motherhood and kinship. Engages in the African diaspora, Black feminism, racial categories, and discussions of embodiment.