Captives and voyagers black migrants across the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world - Byrd, Alexander X., 1968-; ebrary, Inc. (Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2008)
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-332) and index.
Electronic reproduction.
Keywords: Slavery -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century; Blacks -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century; Slave trade -- Nigeria -- History -- 18th century; Sierra Leone -- History; Electronic books