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Captives and voyagers

by Byrd, Alexander X.,
Additional authors: ebrary, Inc.
Series: Antislavery, abolition, and the Atlantic world Published by : Louisiana State University Press, (Baton Rouge :) Physical details: xi, 346 p. : ill., maps.
Subject(s): Slavery -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century. | Blacks -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century. | Slave trade -- Nigeria -- History -- 18th century. | Sierra Leone -- History. | Electronic books.
Year: 2008
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-332) and index.

The slave trade from the Biafran interior : violence, serial displacement, and the rudiments of Igbo society -- The slave ship and the beginnings of Igbo society in the African diaspora -- White power and the context of slave seasoning in eighteenth-century Jamaica -- Routines of disaster and revolution -- Social movement and imagining freedom in the British capital -- Migration and the impossible demands of leaving London -- From slaves to free subjects in British North America -- Black society and the limits of British freedom -- The effects of exodus : Afro-maritime society in motion -- Arriving in Sierra Leone : catastrophe and its aftermaths -- Conclusion: Migration and black society in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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