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

"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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Fett, Sharla M. (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Recaptives of a slaveholding republic
  • Proslavery waters
  • Suffering and spectacle
  • A human rights counterpoint
  • Surviving recaptive transport
  • Becoming Liberian "Congoes."