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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Main Author: Byrd, Alexander X., 1968- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2008.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Migration.
Sklavenhandel.
Kolonie.
Einwanderung > Schwarze > Sierra Leone > Geschichte 18. Jh.
Sklavenhandel > Atlantik.
Sklavenhandel > Nigeria > Geschichte 18. Jh.
Sklavenhandel > Grossbritannien > Geschichte 18. Jh.
Slavery.
Slave trade.
Black people.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Slavery.
Esclaves > Commerce > Nigeria > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Slave trade > Nigeria > History > 18th century.
Black people > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Slavery > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Grossbritannien.
Westafrika.
Schwarze.
Sierra Leone > Geschichte 18. Jh.
Schwarze > Grossbritannien > Geschichte 18. Jh.
Sierra Leone.
Nigeria.
Great Britain.
Sierra Leone > Histoire.
Sierra Leone > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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