Recaptured Africans : surviving slave ships, detention, and dislocation in the final years of the slave trade /
"In the years just before the Civil War, during the most intensive phase of American slave-trade suppression, the U.S. Navy seized roughly 2,000 enslaved Africans from illegal slave ships and brought them into temporary camps at Key West and Charleston. In this study, Sharla Fett reconstructs t...
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| التنسيق: | Licensed eBooks |
| اللغة: | الإنجليزية |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2017]
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| الوصول للمادة أونلاين: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9781469630038_fett |
| الملخص: | "In the years just before the Civil War, during the most intensive phase of American slave-trade suppression, the U.S. Navy seized roughly 2,000 enslaved Africans from illegal slave ships and brought them into temporary camps at Key West and Charleston. In this study, Sharla Fett reconstructs the social world of these "recaptives" and recounts the relationships they built to survive the holds of slave ships, American detention camps, and, ultimately, a second transatlantic voyage to Liberia"-- |
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| وصف مادي: | 1 online resource (xv, 290 pages) |
| بيبلوغرافيا: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-284) and index. |
| ردمك: | 9781469630045 1469630044 9781469630038 1469630036 9781469630021 1469630028 |