Recaptured Africans : Surviving Slave Ships, Detention, and Dislocation in the Final Years of the Slave Trade /

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"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 t...

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Autor principal: Fett, Sharla M. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Slaves > Social conditions.
Slaves.
Slave trade.
HISTORY > Africa > West.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
Esclaves > Commerce > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Esclaves > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Esclaves > États-Unis > Conditions sociales > 19e siecle.
Slave trade > United States > History > 19th century.
Slaves > United States > History > 19th century.
Slaves > United States > Social conditions > 19th century.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"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"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (312 pages).
ISBN:9781469630045

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