Captives and Voyagers - Black Migrants Across the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic World

Informationen zum Autor Alexander X. Byrd is an assistant professor of history at Rice University, where he teaches African American history and the history of the African Diaspora. Klappentext Jamestown and Plymouth serve as iconic images of British migration to the New World. A century later, however, when British migration was at its peak, the vast majority of men, women, and children crisscrossing the Atlantic on English ships were of African, not English, descent. Captives and Voyagers, a compelling study from Alexander X. Byrd, traces the departures, voyages, and landings of enslaved and free blacks who left their homelands in the eighteenth century for British colonies and examines how displacement and resettlement shaped migrant society and, in turn, Britain's Atlantic empire. Zusammenfassung Traces the departures, voyages, and landings of enslaved and free blacks who left their homelands in the eighteenth century for British colonies and examines how displacement and resettlement shaped migrant society and, in turn, Britain's Atlantic empire.

Product details

• Authors: Alexander X Byrd, Alexander X. Byrd
• Publisher: Louisiana state univ pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2008
• EAN: 9780807133590
• ISBN: 978-0-8071-3359-0
• No. of pages: 346
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Antislavery, Abolition, and th; Antislavery, Abolition, and th; Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research