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Liberated Africans and the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1807–1896 AAnnddeerrssoonn..iinndddd ii 1111//2222//22001199 1122::1122::2288 PPMM Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora Toyin Falola, Series Editor Th e Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and University Distinguished Teaching Professor University of Texas at Austin Recent Titles Living Salvation in the East African Revival in Uganda Jason Bruner On Durban’s Docks: Zulu Workers, Rural Households, Global Labor Ralph Callebert Mediators, Contract Men, and Colonial Capital: Mechanized Gold Mining in the Gold Coast Colony, 1879–1909 Cassandra Mark-Th iesen Muslim Fula Business Elites and Politics in Sierra Leone Alusine Jalloh Race, Decolonization, and Global Citizenship in South Africa Chielozona Eze Plantation Slavery in the Sokoto Caliphate: A Historical and Comparative Study Mohammed Bashir Salau African Migration Narratives: Politics, Race, and Space Edited by Cajetan Iheka and Jack Taylor Ethics and Society in Nigeria: Identity, History, Political Th eory Nimi Wariboko African Islands: Leading Edges of Empire and Globalization Edited by Toyin Falola, R. 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Hope Avenue, Rochester, NY 14620, USA www.urpress.com and Boydell & Brewer Limited PO Box 9, Woodbridge, Suffolk IP12 3DF, UK www.boydellandbrewer.com ISBN-13: 978-1-58046-969-2 ISSN: 1092-5228 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data 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 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/201903209 4 This publication is printed on acid-free paper. Printed in the United States of America. AAnnddeerrssoonn..iinndddd iivv 1111//2222//22001199 1122::1122::4444 PPMM Dedicated to the Memory of Patrick Harries (1950–2016) AAnnddeerrssoonn..iinndddd vv 1111//2222//22001199 1122::1122::4444 PPMM AAnnddeerrssoonn..iinndddd vvii 1111//2222//22001199 1122::1122::4444 PPMM 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 AAnnddeerrssoonn..iinndddd vviiii 1111//2222//22001199 1122::1122::4444 PPMM viii (cid:4517) contents 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 AAnnddeerrssoonn..iinndddd vviiiiii 1111//2222//22001199 1122::1122::4444 PPMM contents (cid:4517) ix 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 AAnnddeerrssoonn..iinndddd iixx 1111//2222//22001199 1122::1122::4444 PPMM