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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Bibliografische gegevens
Hoofdauteur: Fett, Sharla M. (Auteur)
Formaat: Licensed eBooks
Taal:Engels
Gepubliceerd in: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press [2017]
Online toegang:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9781469630038_fett
Inhoudsopgave:
  • Recaptives of a slaveholding republic
  • Proslavery waters
  • Suffering and spectacle
  • A human rights counterpoint
  • Surviving recaptive transport
  • Becoming Liberian "Congoes."