TY - BOOK AU - Byrd,Alexander X. ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Captives and voyagers: black migrants across the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world T2 - Antislavery, abolition, and the Atlantic world AV - HT1161 .B97 2008eb U1 - 306.3/62094109033 22 PY - 2008/// CY - Baton Rouge PB - Louisiana State University Press KW - Slavery KW - Great Britain KW - History KW - 18th century KW - Blacks KW - Slave trade KW - Nigeria KW - Sierra Leone KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - 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 UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10275539 ER -