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Liberated Africans
and the Abolition of the
Slave Trade, 1807–1896
Edited by
Richard Anderson and
Henry B. Lovejoy
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Names: Anderson, Richard (Richard Peter), editor. | Lovejoy, Henry B., editor.
Title: Liberated Africans and the abolition of the slave trade, 1807–1896 / edited by
Richard Anderson and Henry B. Lovejoy.
Description: Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2020. | Series:
Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora, 1092-5228 ; 86 | Includes
bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019032094 | ISBN 9781580469692 (hardcover) | ISBN
9781787446557 (pdf)
Subjects: LCSH: Slavery—Africa—History—19th century. | Slavery—Law and
legislation—History—19th century. | Freedmen—Africa—History—19th
century.
Classification: LCC HT1323 .L53 2020 | DDC 306.3/6209609034—dc23
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Dedicated to the Memory of Patrick Harries (1950–2016)
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Contents
List of Illustrations xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction: “Liberated Africans” and Early International
Courts of Humanitarian Effort 1
Henry B. Lovejoy and Richard Anderson
Part One. Origins of Liberated Africans
1 Precedents: The “Captured Negroes” of Tortola, 1807–22 25
Sean M. Kelley
2 The Impact of Liberated African “Disposal” Policies in
Early Nineteenth-Century Sierra Leone 45
Suzanne Schwarz
3 Visualizing Abolition: Mapping the Suppression of the
African Slave Trade, 1810s–90s 66
Daniel B. Domingues da Silva and Katelyn E. Ziegler
Part Two. Sierra Leone
4 Liberated African “Children” in Sierra Leone: Colonial
Classifications of “Child” and “Childhood,” 1808–19 81
Érika Melek Delgado
5 New Insights on Liberated Africans: The 1831
Freetown Census 101
Allen M. Howard
6 Ali Eisami’s Enslavement in Jihad and Emancipation as a
Liberated African 127
Paul E. Lovejoy
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Part Three. Caribbean
7 The Misfortune of Liberated Africans in Colonial Cuba,
1824–76 153
Inés Roldán de Montaud
8 Household Labor and Sexual Coercion: Reconstructing
Women’s Experience of African Recaptive Settlement 174
Laura Rosanne Adderley
9 Gavino of the Lucumi Nation: David Turnbull and the
Liberated Africans of Havana 198
Randy J. Sparks
Part Four. Lusophone Atlantic
10 British Antislavery Diplomacy and Liberated African
Rights as an International Issue 215
Maeve Ryan
11 Producing “Liberated” Africans in Mid-nineteenth
Century Angola 238
José C. Curto
12 The Paquete de Benguela: Illegal Slave Trade and the
Liberated Africans in Rio de Janeiro 257
Nielson Rosa Bezerra
Part Five. Liberated Africans in Global Perspective
13 Liberated Africans in the Indian Ocean World 271
Matthew S. Hopper
14 Liberated Africans at the Cape: Some Reconsiderations 295
Chris Saunders
15 Liberated African Settlers on St. Helena 313
Andrew Pearson
16 “Fugitive Liberated Congoes”: Recaptive Youth and the
Rejection of Liberian Apprenticeships, 1858–61 323
Sharla M. Fett
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Part Six. Resettlements
17 “Perpetual Expatriation”: Forced Migration and Liberated
African Apprenticeship in the Gambia 347
Kyle Prochnow
18 “Promoting the Industry of Liberated Africans” in
British Honduras, 1824–41 365
Tim Soriano
19 Diaspora Consciousness, Historical Memory, and Culture
in Liberated African Villages in Grenada, 1850s–2014 384
Shantel George
Bibliography 409
Notes on Contributors 451
Index 453
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