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Distant freedom - St Helena and the abolition of the slave trade, 1840-1872 (Paperback)
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Distant freedom - St Helena and the abolition of the slave trade, 1840-1872 (Paperback)
Series: Liverpool Studies in International Slavery, 10
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This book is an examination of the island of St Helena's
involvement in slave trade abolition. After the establishment of a
British Vice-Admiralty court there in 1840, this tiny and remote
South Atlantic colony became the hub of naval activity in the
region. It served as a base for the Royal Navy's West Africa
Squadron, and as such became the principal receiving depot for
intercepted slave ships and their human cargo. During the middle
decades of the nineteenth century over 25,000 'recaptive' or
'liberated' Africans were landed at the island. Here, in embryonic
refugee camps, these former slaves lived and died, genuine freedom
still a distant prospect. This book provides an account and
evaluation of this episode. It begins by charting the political
contexts which drew St Helena into the fray of abolition, and
considers how its involvement, at times, came to occupy those at
the highest levels of British politics. In the main, however, it
focuses on St Helena itself, and examines how matters played out on
the ground. The study utilises documentary sources (many previously
untouched) which tell the stories of those whose lives became bound
up in the compass of anti-slavery, far from London and long after
the Abolition Act of 1807. It puts the Black experience at the
foreground, aiming to bring a voice to a forgotten people, many of
whom died in limbo, in a place that was physically and conceptually
between freedom and slavery.
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