Descript |
xi, 346 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
Contents |
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. |
ISBN |
9780807133590 (cloth) |
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0807133590 (cloth) |
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9780807137109 (pbk) |
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