Recaptured Africans
Subtitle: surviving slave ships, detention, and dislocation in the final years of the slave trade
By: Sharla M. Fett
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9781469630021; 9781469630038
Subjects: Social conditions; Slave trade; Slaves; History
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pp. 255-284) and index.
Table of contents: title: Recaptives of a slaveholding republic; title: Proslavery waters; title: Suffering and spectacle; title: A human rights counterpoint; title: Surviving recaptive transport; title: Becoming Liberian "Congoes."