Captives and voyagers [electronic resource] : black migrants across the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world / Alexander X. Byrd.
Series: Antislavery, abolition, and the Atlantic worldPublication details: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2008.Description: xi, 346 p. : ill., mapsISBN:- 0807133590 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780807133590 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 306.3/62094109033 22
- HT1161 .B97 2008eb
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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.
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