Distant freedom
"St Helena and the abolition of the slave trade, 1840-1872"
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19970514 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrew Pearson (0000-0002-2170-6606, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Pages | 336 |
| Publication date | 2016-05-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Distant Freedom (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Liverpool University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.5949/liverpool/9781781382837.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W4241035196 |
| Open Library | OL29310426M |
| ISBN | 9781781382837 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
This book is an examination of the South Atlantic island of St Helena's involvement in the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade. In the decades after 1807, British anti-slavery revolved around Sierra Leone, but following the establishment of a British Vice-Admiralty court at St Helena in 1840, this dynamic radically changed. The island became a new hub of naval activity in the region, acting as a base for the West Africa Squadron and a principal receiving depot for captured slave ships and their human cargo. During the middle decades of the nineteenth century over 25,000 'recaptive' or liberated Africans were landed at St Helena. This book provides an account and evaluation of this episode. It begins by considering the geo-political events that brought St Helena into the fray of abolition, and the manner in which colonial policy set in London meshed with practical reality in the distant South Atlantic. The greater part of the book focuses closely on St Helena. It examines the relationship between the Royal Navy and the island during this period of slave-tradesuppression, the operation of the 'depots' that were set up to receive the liberated Africans, and the medical treatment that was afforded to them. The lives of the survivors, both in the immediate and longer-term, is also considered, from the limited settlement that occurred on St Helena, to their wider diaspora across the Atlantic world
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Atlantic World · Colonialism · Diaspora · Economic history · Ethnology · Geography · Middle Passage · Navy · Period (music) · Political science · Politics · Settlement (finance) · Sierra leone · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Law · Abschaffung · Antislavery movements · Colonies · Saint helena · Sklaverei · Slave trade · Slavery · Slaves
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| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,1 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2026 (11) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |