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Author:

Fett, Sharla M., author.

Title:

Recaptured Africans : surviving slave ships, detention, and dislocation in the final years of the slave trade / Sharla M. Fett.

Publisher:

The University of North Carolina Press,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

xv, 290 pages ; 25 cm

Subject:

Slaves--United States--Social conditions--19th century.
Slaves--United States--History--19th century.
Slave trade--United States--History--19th century.
Slave trade.
Slaves.
Slaves--Social conditions.
United States.
1800-1899
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Recaptives of a slaveholding republic -- Proslavery waters -- Suffering and spectacle -- A human rights counterpoint -- Surviving recaptive transport -- Becoming Liberian "Congoes."

Summary:

"In the years just before the Civil War, during the most intensive phase of American slave-trade suppression, the U.S. Navy seized roughly 2,000 enslaved Africans from illegal slave ships and brought them into temporary camps at Key West and Charleston. In this study, Sharla Fett reconstructs the social world of these "recaptives" and recounts the relationships they built to survive the holds of slave ships, American detention camps, and, ultimately, a second transatlantic voyage to Liberia"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

1469630028
9781469630021

OCLC:

(OCoLC)951190456

LCCN:

2016024828

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)