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Interrogates the development of the world's first international
courts of humanitarian justice and the subsequent "liberation" of
nearly two hundred thousand Africans in the nineteenth century. In
1807, Britain and the United States passed legislation limiting and
ultimately prohibiting the transoceanic slave trade. As world
powers negotiated anti-slave-trade treaties thereafter, British,
Portuguese, Spanish, Brazilian,French, and US authorities seized
ships suspected of illegal slave trading, raided slave barracoons,
and detained newly landed slaves. The judicial processes in a
network of the world's first international courts of humanitarian
justice not only resulted in the "liberation" of nearly two hundred
thousand people but also generated an extensive archive of
documents. Liberated Africans and the Abolition of the Slave Trade,
1807-1896 makes use of theserecords to illuminate the fates of
former slaves, many of whom were released from bondage only to be
conscripted into extended periods of indentured servitude. Essays
in this collection explore a range of topics relatedto those often
referred to as "Liberated Africans"-a designation that, the authors
show, should be met with skepticism. Contributors share an emphasis
on the human consequences for Africans of the abolitionist
legislation. The collection is deeply comparative, looking at
conditions in British colonies such as Sierra Leone, the Gambia,
and the Cape Colony as well as slave-plantation economies such as
Brazil, Cuba, and Mauritius. A groundbreaking intervention in the
study of slavery, abolition, and emancipation, this volume will be
welcomed by scholars, students, and all who care about the global
legacy of slavery.
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