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Author:

Byrd, Alexander X., 1968-

Title:

Captives and voyagers : black migrants across the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world / Alexander X. Byrd.

Edition:

Louisiana pbk. ed.

Publisher:

Louisiana State University Press,

Copyright Date:

2010

Description:

xi, 346 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Slavery--Great Britain--History--18th century.
Blacks--Great Britain--History--18th century.
Slave trade--Nigeria--History--18th century.
Sierra Leone--History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-332) and index. Originally published: 2008.

Contents:

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.

Series:

Antislavery, abolition, and the Atlantic world.

ISBN:

0807137103
9780807137109

OCLC:

(OCoLC)665832466

Locations:

HWAX074 -- Hawkeye Community College Library (Waterloo)