Title Captives and voyagers : black migrants across the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world / Alexander X. Byrd

Published Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 346 pages) : illustrations, maps Series Antislavery, abolition, and the Atlantic world Antislavery, abolition, and the Atlantic world. 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 Summary Captives and Voyagers traces the departures, voyages, and landings of enslaved and free blacks who left their homelands in the eighteenth century for British colonies and examines how displacement and resettlement shaped migrant society and, in turn, Britain's Atlantic empire. Alexander X. Byrd focuses on the two largest and most significant streams of black dislocation: the forced migration of Africans from the Biafran interior of present-day southeastern Nigeria to Jamaica as part of the British slave trade and the journeys of free blacks from Great Britain and British North America to Sierr Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-332) and index Credits Designer: Amanda McDonald Scallan Typeface: Minion Typesetter: J. Jarrett Engineering Printer and Binder: Thomson-Shore, Inc Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL American Historical Association Wesley-Logan Prize in African diaspora history, 2009 Subject Slavery -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century Black people -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century Slave trade -- Nigeria -- History -- 18th century SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Slavery. Black people Slave trade Slavery Sklavenhandel -- Grossbritannien -- Geschichte 18. Jh. Sklavenhandel -- Nigeria -- Geschichte 18. Jh. Sklavenhandel -- Atlantik. Einwanderung -- Schwarze -- Sierra Leone -- Geschichte 18. Jh. Kolonie. Sklavenhandel. Migration. SUBJECT Sierra Leone -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85122351 Subject Great Britain Nigeria Sierra Leone Schwarze -- Grossbritannien -- Geschichte 18. Jh. Sierra Leone -- Geschichte 18. Jh. Schwarze. Westafrika. Grossbritannien. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780807134849 0807134848

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