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Interrogates the development of the world's first international courts of humanitarian justice and the subsequent "liberation" of nearly two hundred thousand Africans in the nineteenth century.
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Acknowledgments
Introduction: "Liberated Africans" and Early International Courts of Humanitarian Effort - Henry B. Lovejoy
Introduction: "Liberated Africans" and Early International Courts of Humanitarian Effort - Richard Anderson
Part One. Origins of Liberated Africans
Precedents: The "Captured Negroes" of Tortola, 1807-22 - Sean Kelly
The Impact of Liberated African "Disposal" Policies in Early Nineteenth-Century Sierra Leone - Suzanne Schwarz
Visualizing Abolition: Mapping the Suppression of the African Slave Trade, 1810s-90s - Daniel B. Domingues da Silva
Visualizing Abolition: Mapping the Suppression of the African Slave Trade, 1810s-90s - Katelyn E. Ziegler
Part Two. Sierra Leone
Liberated African "Children" in Sierra Leone: Colonial Classifications of "Child" and "Childhood," 1808-19 - Érika Melek Delgado
New Insights on Liberated Africans: The 1831 Freetown Census - Allen M. Howard
Ali Eisami's Enslavement in Jihad and Emancipation as a Liberated African - Paul Lovejoy
Part Three. Caribbean
The Misfortune of Liberated Africans in Colonial Cuba, 1824-76 - Inés Roldán de Montaud
Household Labor and Sexual Coercion: Reconstructing Women's Experience of African Recaptive Settlement - Laura Rosanne Adderley
Gavino of the Lucumi Nation: David Turnbull and the Liberated Africans of Havana - Randy J. Sparks
Part Four. Lusophone Atlantic
British Antislavery Diplomacy and Liberated African Rights as an International Issue - Maeve Ryan
Producing "Liberated" Africans in Mid-nineteenth Century Angola - José C. Curto
The
Paquete de Benguela: Illegal Slave Trade and the Liberated Africans in Rio de Janeiro - Nielson Rosa Bezerra
Part Five. Liberated Africans in Global Perspective
Liberated Africans in the Indian Ocean World - Matthew S. Hopper
Liberated Africans at the Cape: Some Reconsiderations - Chris Saunders
Liberated African Settlers on St. Helena - Andrew Pearson
"Fugitive Liberated Congoes": Recaptive Youth and the Rejection of Liberian Apprenticeships, 1858-61 - Sharla M. Fett
Part Six. Resettlements
"Perpetual Expatriation": Forced Migration and Liberated African Apprenticeship in the Gambia - Kyle Prochnow
"Promoting the Industry of Liberated Africans" in British Honduras, 1824-41 - Tim Soriano
Diaspora Consciousness, Historical Memory and Culture in Liberated African Villages in Grenada, 1850s-2014 - Shantel George
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Notes on Contributors
About the author
Richard Anderson, Henry B. Lovejoy
