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100 1 _aByrd, Alexander X.,
_d1968-
245 1 0 _aCaptives and voyagers
_h[electronic resource] :
_bblack migrants across the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world /
_cAlexander X. Byrd.
260 _aBaton Rouge :
_bLouisiana State University Press,
_cc2008.
300 _axi, 346 p. :
_bill., maps.
490 1 _aAntislavery, abolition, and the Atlantic world
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [313]-332) and index.
505 0 _aThe 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.
533 _aElectronic reproduction.
_bPalo Alto, Calif. :
_cebrary,
_d2013.
_nAvailable via World Wide Web.
_nAccess may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
650 0 _aSlavery
_zGreat Britain
_xHistory
_y18th century.
650 0 _aBlacks
_zGreat Britain
_xHistory
_y18th century.
650 0 _aSlave trade
_zNigeria
_xHistory
_y18th century.
651 0 _aSierra Leone
_xHistory.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
710 2 _aebrary, Inc.
830 0 _aAntislavery, abolition, and the Atlantic world.
856 4 0 _uhttp://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10275539
_zAn electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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