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Liberated Africans and the abolition of the slave trade, 1807-1896
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- Summary
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Interrogates the development of the world's first international courts of humanitarian justice and the subsequent "liberation" of nearly two hundred thousand Africans in the nineteenth century.
Details
- Creator
- edited by Richard Anderson and Henry B. Lovejoy
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2020
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 465 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
- ISBNs
- 9781787446557, 9781580469692, 9781787449510, 1787449513, 1580469698, 1787446557
- OCLC
- on1137594203
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Mar 2020).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction "Liberated Africans" and Early International Courts of Humanitarian Effort -- Part One. Origins of Liberated Africans -- Chapter One. Precedents The "Captured Negroes" of Tortola, 1807-22 -- Chapter Two. The Impact of Liberated African "Disposal" Policies in Early Nineteenth-Century Sierra Leone -- Chapter Three. Visualizing Abolition: Mapping the Suppression of the African Slave Trade, 1810s-90s -- Part Two. Sierra Leone -- Chapter Four. Liberated African "Children" in Sierra Leone: Colonial Classifications of "Child" and "Childhood," 1808-19 -- Chapter Five. New Insights on Liberated Africans: The 1831 Freetown Census -- Chapter Six. Ali Eisami's Enslavement in Jihad and Emancipation as a Liberated African -- Part Three. Caribbean -- Chapter Seven. The Misfortune of Liberated Africans in Colonial Cuba, 1824-76 -- Chapter Eight. Household Labor and Sexual Coercion: Reconstructing Women's Experience of African Recaptive Settlement -- Chapter Nine. Gavino of the Lucumi Nation: David Turnbull and the Liberated Africans of Havana -- Part Four. Lusophone Atlantic -- Chapter Ten. British Antislavery Diplomacy and Liberated African Rights as an International Issue -- Chapter Eleven. Producing "Liberated" Africans in Mid-nineteenth Century Angola -- Chapter Twelve. The Paquete de Benguela: Illegal Slave Trade and the Liberated Africans in Rio de Janeiro -- Part Five. Liberated Africans in Global Perspective -- Chapter Thirteen. Liberated Africans in the Indian Ocean World -- Chapter Fourteen. Liberated Africans at the Cape: Some Reconsiderations -- Chapter Fifteen: Liberated African Settlers on St. Helena -- Chapter Sixteen "Fugitive Liberated Congoes" Recaptive Youth and the Rejection of Liberian Apprenticeships, 1858-61 -- Part Six. Resettlements -- Chapter Seventeen "Perpetual Expatriation" Forced Migration and Liberated African Apprenticeship in the Gambia -- Chapter Eighteen "Promoting the Industry of Liberated Africans" in British Honduras, 1824-41 -- Chapter Nineteen. Diaspora Consciousness, Historical Memory, and Culture in Liberated African Villages in Grenada, 1850s-2014 -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index