Captives and voyagers
Byrd, Alexander X., 1968-
Captives and voyagers black migrants across the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world / [electronic resource] : Alexander X. Byrd. - Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2008. - xi, 346 p. : ill., maps. - Antislavery, abolition, and the Atlantic world . - Antislavery, abolition, and the Atlantic world. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-332) and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Slavery--History--Great Britain--18th century.
Blacks--History--Great Britain--18th century.
Slave trade--History--Nigeria--18th century.
Sierra Leone--History.
Electronic books.
HT1161 / .B97 2008eb
306.3/62094109033
Captives and voyagers black migrants across the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world / [electronic resource] : Alexander X. Byrd. - Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2008. - xi, 346 p. : ill., maps. - Antislavery, abolition, and the Atlantic world . - Antislavery, abolition, and the Atlantic world. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-332) and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Slavery--History--Great Britain--18th century.
Blacks--History--Great Britain--18th century.
Slave trade--History--Nigeria--18th century.
Sierra Leone--History.
Electronic books.
HT1161 / .B97 2008eb
306.3/62094109033