Dedication

pp v-vi

Contents

pp vii-x

List of Illustrations

pp xi-xii

Acknowledgments

pp xiii-xiv

Introduction: “Liberated Africans” and Early International Courts of Humanitarian Effort

pp 1-22

Part One - Origins of Liberated Africans

pp 23-24

1 - Precedents: The “Captured Negroes” of Tortola, 1807–22

pp 25-44

2 - The Impact of Liberated African “Disposal” Policies in Early Nineteenth-Century Sierra Leone

pp 45-65

3 - Visualizing Abolition: Mapping the Suppression of the African Slave Trade, 1810s–90s

pp 66-78

Part Two - Sierra Leone

pp 79-80

4 - Liberated African “Children” in Sierra Leone: Colonial Classifications of “Child” and “Childhood,” 1808–19

pp 81-100

5 - New Insights on Liberated Africans: The 1831 Freetown Census

pp 101-126

6 - Ali Eisami's Enslavement in Jihad and Emancipation as a Liberated African

pp 127-150

Part Three - Caribbean

pp 151-152

7 - The Misfortune of Liberated Africans in Colonial Cuba, 1824–76

pp 153-173

8 - Household Labor and Sexual Coercion: Reconstructing Women's Experience of African Recaptive Settlement

pp 174-197

9 - Gavino of the Lucumi Nation: David Turnbull and the Liberated Africans of Havana

pp 198-212

Part Four - Lusophone Atlantic

pp 213-214

10 - British Antislavery Diplomacy and Liberated African Rights as an International Issue

pp 215-237

11 - Producing “Liberated” Africans in Mid-nineteenth Century Angola

pp 238-256

12 - The Paquete de Benguela: Illegal Slave Trade and the Liberated Africans in Rio de Janeiro

pp 257-268

Part Five - Liberated Africans in Global Perspective

pp 269-270

13 - Liberated Africans in the Indian Ocean World

pp 271-294

14 - Liberated Africans at the Cape: Some Reconsiderations

pp 295-312

15 - Liberated African Settlers on St. Helena

pp 313-322

16 - “Fugitive Liberated Congoes”: Recaptive Youth and the Rejection of Liberian Apprenticeships, 1858–61

pp 323-344

Part Six - Resettlements

pp 345-346

17 - “Perpetual Expatriation”: Forced Migration and Liberated African Apprenticeship in the Gambia

pp 347-364

18 - “Promoting the Industry of Liberated Africans” in British Honduras, 1824–41

pp 365-383