02398nam a2200385 a 4500 ebr10275539 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 080425s2008 lauab sb s001 0 eng 2008018831 9780807133590 (cloth : alk. paper) 0807133590 (cloth : alk. paper) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)318240585 e-uk--- f-nr--- f-sl--- HT1161 .B97 2008eb 306.3/62094109033 22 Byrd, Alexander X., 1968- Captives and voyagers [electronic resource] : black migrants across the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world / Alexander X. Byrd. Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2008. xi, 346 p. : ill., maps. Antislavery, abolition, and the Atlantic world 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. Slavery Great Britain History 18th century. Blacks Great Britain History 18th century. Slave trade Nigeria History 18th century. Sierra Leone History. Electronic books. local ebrary, Inc. Antislavery, abolition, and the Atlantic world. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10275539 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 20832 20832