Captives and voyagers
Subtitle: black migrants across the eighteenth-century British Atlantic World
By: Alexander X. Byrd.
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9780807133590
Subjects: 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 and index.
Table of contents: title: The slave trade from the Biafran interior : violence, serial displacement, and the rudiments of Igbo society; title: The slave ship and the beginnings of Igbo society in the African diaspora; title: White power and the context of slave seasoning in eighteenth-century Jamaica; title: Routines of disaster and revolution; title: Social movement and imagining freedom in the British capital; title: Migration and the impossible demands of leaving london; title: From slaves to free subjects in British North America; title: Black society and the limits of British freedom; title: The effects of exodus : afro-maritime society in motion; title: Arriving in Sierra Leone : catastrophe and its aftermaths; title: Conclusion: Migration and black society in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world.