Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-332) and index.
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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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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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 focuses on the two largest and most significant streams of black dislocation: the forced migration of Africans from the Biafran interior of present-day southeastern Nigeria to Jamaica as part of the British slave trade and the journeys of free blacks from Great Britain and British North America to Sierr.
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Title
Captives and voyagers.
International Standard Book Number
0807133590
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Blacks-- Great Britain-- History-- 18th century.
Slave trade-- Nigeria-- History-- 18th century.
Slavery-- Great Britain-- History-- 18th century.
Blacks.
Einwanderung-- Schwarze-- Sierra Leone-- Geschichte 18. Jh.
Kolonie.
Migration.
Sklavenhandel-- Atlantik.
Sklavenhandel-- Grossbritannien-- Geschichte 18. Jh.