Byrd, Alexander X.,  1968- <br/><br/>
Captives and voyagers  black migrants across the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world /  [electronic resource] : 
Alexander X. Byrd. 
 - Baton Rouge :  Louisiana State University Press,  c2008. 
 - xi, 346 p. :  ill., maps. 
 - Antislavery, abolition, and the Atlantic world .
 - Antislavery, abolition, and the Atlantic world. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-332) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. <br/>Palo Alto, Calif. : <br/>ebrary, <br/>2013. <br/>Available via World Wide Web. <br/>Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0807133590 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780807133590 (cloth : alk. paper) 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Blacks--History--Great Britain--18th century.<br/>Slave trade--History--Nigeria--18th century.<br/>Slavery--History--Great Britain--18th century.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Sierra Leone--History.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HT1161  / .B97 2008eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>306.3/62094109033