The African American Subject Funnel Project: Definitions, History, and Processes

In 2021, Jean L. Cooper, the principal cataloger at the University of Virginia, sat down to catalog the book Slavery at Sea by Sowande’ M. Mustakeem.1 Published in 2009, the text examines the history of the Middle Passage—the forced voyage of enslaved Africans from West and Central Africa to the Americas beginning in the sixteenth century until the abolition of slavery