African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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231 p, Contents: 1.. Introductory: The Sierra Leone Settlement and the Birth of a British African Policy 1787-1840 -- 2. The Origins of Liberated African Emigration -- 3. International Reactions -- 4. 'Voluntary' Emigration under Government Control 1843-1846 -- 'Voluntary' Emigration under Government Control: The Growler Scheme and the Hook-MacDonald Conflict 1847-1849 -- 6. Labour Recruitment Techniques: The Coastal Squadron and the Vice-Admiralty Courts -- 7. The Hodge Contract and the End of Emigration Policy -- Conclusion
Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press
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African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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326 p., Shows how gender shaped urban routes to freedom for the enslaved during the process of gradual emancipation in Cuba and Brazil, which occurred only after the rest of Latin America had abolished slavery and even after the American Civil War. Focusing on late nineteenth-century Havana and Rio de Janeiro, Cowling argues that enslaved women played a dominant role in carving out freedom for themselves and their children through the courts.
