Bibliograph

Recaptured Africans, surviving slave ships, detention, and dislocation in the final years of the slave trade, Sharla M. Fett

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Label

Recaptured Africans, surviving slave ships, detention, and dislocation in the final years of the slave trade, Sharla M. Fett

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-284) and index

resource.governmentPublication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

mapsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Recaptured Africans

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

951190456

Responsibility statement

Sharla M. Fett

Sub title

surviving slave ships, detention, and dislocation in the final years of the slave trade

Summary

"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"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Introduction -- Recaptives of a slaveholding republic -- Proslavery waters -- Suffering and spectacle -- A human rights counterpoint -- Surviving recaptive transport -- Becoming Liberian "Congoes" -- Conclusion

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