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Freedom's debtors : British antislavery in Sierra Leone in the age of revolution / Padraic X. Scanlan.
LIBRA JQ3121.A58 S335 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Scanlan, Padraic S., author.
- Series:
- Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history
- The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- History.
- Enslaved persons--Emancipation--Economic aspects.
- Enslaved persons--Emancipation.
- Enslaved persons--Emancipation--British colonies.
- Enslaved persons--Emancipation--French colonies.
- Antislavery movements.
- Forced labor.
- Labor.
- Colonies.
- Administration.
- Great Britain--Colonies--Sierra Leone--Administration.
- Great Britain.
- Labor laws and legislation--Great Britain--Colonies.
- Labor laws and legislation.
- Labor--Sierra Leone--History.
- Forced labor--Sierra Leone--History.
- Antislavery movements--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Enslaved persons--Emancipation--Economic aspects--Sierra Leone.
- Enslaved persons.
- Sierra Leone--History--18th century.
- Sierra Leone.
- Sierra Leone--History--19th century.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 299 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2017]
- Contents:
- 1 Antislavery on a Slave Coast 28
- 2 Let That Heart Be English 65
- 3 The Vice-Admiralty Court 97
- 4 The Absolute Disposal of the Crown 130
- 5 The Liberated African Department 167.
- ISBN:
- 0300217447
- 9780300217445
- OCLC:
- 982565109
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