Recaptured Africans: Surviving Slave Ships, Detention, And Dislocation In The Final Years Of The Slave Trade - Hardcover

Fett, Sharla M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1469630028 ISBN 13: 9781469630021

Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press, 2016

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Críticas:

Describe[s] a crucial link in the chain of the history of racism that stretches between the transatlantic slave trade and modern methods of viewing, controlling, incarcerating, and disposing of black lives.--The Journal of Southern History Riveting narrative of untold story of slavery. . . . Groundbreaking and firmly places itself in the category of entirely new information.--Civil War News Provide[s] telling accounts and analysis of the ways that Americans were forced to move from abstractions to actions regarding the slave trade and issues of race. In that, it speaks to our own day.--Library Journal Presents a revealing view of the debates over slavery, race, and empire in the years immediately preceding a war to which these issues were central. . . . Emphasizes the suffering and resilience of the recaptives, restoring agency to people whose experiences are too often seen as abstractions.--Publishers Weekly, starred review

Reseña del editor:

In the years just before the Civil War, during the most intensive phaseof American slave-trade suppression, the U.S. Navy seized roughly 2,000enslaved Africans from illegal slave ships and brought them into temporarycamps at Key West and Charleston. In this study, Sharla Fett reconstructs thesocial world of these "recaptives" and recounts the relationships they built tosurvive the holds of slave ships, American detention camps, and, ultimately,a second transatlantic voyage to Liberia. Fett also demonstrates how thepresence of slave-trade refugees in southern ports accelerated heated argumentsbetween divergent antebellum political movements-from abolitionisthuman rights campaigns to slave-trade revivalism-that used recaptives tosupport their claims about slavery, slave trading, and race. By focusing on shipmate relations rather than naval exploits or legal trials,and by analysing the experiences of both children and adults of varyingAfrican origins, Fett provides the first history of U.S. slave-trade suppressioncentered on recaptive Africans themselves. In so doing, she examines thestate of "recaptivity" as a distinctive variant of slave-trade captivity and situatesthe recaptives' story within the broader diaspora of "Liberated Africans"throughout the Atlantic world.

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• Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1469630028
• ISBN 13: 9781469630021
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352