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Author Byrd, Alexander X., 1968-

Title Captives and voyagers [electronic resource] : black migrants across the eighteenth-century British Atlantic World / Alexander X. Byrd.

Imprint Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2008.

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Description xi, 346 p. : Grayscale Illustration ; 24 cm.
Series Antislavery, abolition, and the Atlantic world.
ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Note Published by Louisiana State University Press.
Manufactured in the United States of America.
First Printing.
The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources.
All rights reserved.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Part I. Captives -- Part II. Voyagers.
Black Migrations -- 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 -- Migration and Black Society in the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic World.
Credits Designer: Amanda McDonald Scallan.
Typeface: Minion.
Typesetter: J. Jarrett Engineering.
Printer and Binder: Thomson-Shore, Inc.
Reproduction Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2020. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book])
Subject Slavery -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
Blacks -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
Slave trade -- Nigeria -- History -- 18th century.
Sierra Leone -- History.
Comparative/World.
Genre/Form Electronic books
Added Author Blackett, R. J. M. Series editor.
Stewart, James Brewer Series editor.
American Council of Learned Societies.
In: ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: https://www.humanitiesebook.org/
ISBN 9780807133590 paper
Standard No. 2027/heb08821 hdl

 
    
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