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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Bibliografiske detaljer
Hovedforfatter: Fett, Sharla M. (Author)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Sprog:engelsk
Udgivet: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press [2017]
Online adgang:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9781469630038_fett
Indholdsfortegnelse:
  • Recaptives of a slaveholding republic
  • Proslavery waters
  • Suffering and spectacle
  • A human rights counterpoint
  • Surviving recaptive transport
  • Becoming Liberian "Congoes."