Recaptured Africans
Journal Data
| Type | SOURCE_BOOK |
|---|---|
| ISBN-13 | 9781469630021 |
| Open Library | OL20046359W |
| Total publications | 1 |
| Coverage period | 2016 - 2016 |
| Language | EN |
"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"--
Recaptured Africans
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 and recounts the relationships they built tosurvive the holds of slave ships, American detention camps, and, ultimately,a second transa…
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Recaptured Africans
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 and recounts the relationships they built tosurvive the holds of slave ships, American detention camps, and, ultimately,a second transa…