Using African Names to Identify the Origins of Captives in the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Crowd-Sourcing and the Registers of Liberated Africans, 1808–1862
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9306818 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard Anderson (0000-0002-7283-7219, corresponding author), Alex Borucki (0009-0009-9863-7977), Daniel Domingues Da Silva (0000-0001-9666-7421), David Eltis (0000-0002-5500-0388), Paul Lachance, Philip Misevich, Olatunji Ojo |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 165-191 |
| Publication date | 2013-07-11 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History in Africa (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0361-5413 • E-ISSN: 1558-2744 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/hia.2013.3 |
| OpenAlex | W2153126707 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 24 |
Between 1808 and 1862, officers primarily from the British navy liberated approximately 175,000 enslaved Africans from transatlantic slavers. Information on more than half of this group has survived in bound ledger books. Based on the assessment of extant data for more than 92,000 Liberated Africans whose information was copied in at times duplicate and triplicate form in both London- and Freetown-based registers, this essay explores the pitfalls and possibilities associated with using the Registers for Liberated Africans as sources for historical analysis of the slave trade. The article explains the relationship of multiple copies of the registers to each other, demonstrates the link between the African names they contain and ethnolinguistic identities, argues for crowd-sourcing – drawing on the knowledge of the diasporic public and not just scholars – and, finally, shows the importance of such an approach for pre-colonial African history
Ancient history · Archaeology · Business · Colonialism · Ethnology · Extant taxon · Genealogy · Ledger · Middle Passage · Navy · Sociology · Anthropology · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Race, History, and American Society
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| Unique citing works | 16 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,23 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2021 (9) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |