Captives and voyagers black migrants across the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Byrd, Alexander X., 1968-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2008.
Series:Antislavery, abolition, and the Atlantic world.
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Table of 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.