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Captives and Voyagers : Black Migrants across the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic World /

Captives and Voyagers traces the departures, voyages, and landings of enslaved and free blacks who left their homelands in the eighteenth century for British colonies and examines how displacement and resettlement shaped migrant society and, in turn, Britain's Atlantic empire. Alexander X. Byrd...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Byrd, Alexander X., 1968- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2008.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Captives and Voyagers traces the departures, voyages, and landings of enslaved and free blacks who left their homelands in the eighteenth century for British colonies and examines how displacement and resettlement shaped migrant society and, in turn, Britain's Atlantic empire. Alexander X. Byrd focuses on the two largest and most significant streams of black dislocation: the forced migration of Africans from the Biafran interior of present-day southeastern Nigeria to Jamaica as part of the British slave trade and the journeys of free blacks from Great Britain and British North America to Sierr.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (360 pages): illustrations, maps
Premios:American Historical Association Wesley-Logan Prize in African diaspora history, 2009.
ISBN:9780807134849