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

Author/creator Byrd, Alexander X., 1968-
Format Book
Publication InfoBaton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, ©2008.
Descriptionxi, 346 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Subjects
Slavery--Great Britain. --History. --18th century.
Black people--Great Britain. --History. --18th century.
Slave trade--Nigeria. --History. --18th century.
Sierra Leone--History.

SeriesAntislavery, abolition, and the Atlantic world
Antislavery, abolition, and the Atlantic world. ^A532935
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [313]-332) and index.
LCCN 2008018831
ISBN9780807133590 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0807133590 (cloth : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks HT1161 .B97 2008 ✔ Available Place Hold