Fett, Sharla M., <br/><br/>
Recaptured Africans :  surviving slave ships, detention, and dislocation in the final years of the slave trade / 
Sharla M. Fett. 
 - Chapel Hill :  The University of North Carolina Press,  (c)2017. 
 - 1 online resource (xv, 290 pages) 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Recaptives of a slaveholding republic --  Proslavery waters --  Suffering and spectacle --  A human rights counterpoint --  Surviving recaptive transport --  Becoming Liberian "Congoes." 
<br/><br/> "In the years just before the Civil War, during the most intensive phase of American slave-trade suppression, the U.S. Navy seized roughly 2,000 enslaved Africans from illegal slave ships and brought them into temporary camps at Key West and Charleston. In this study, Sharla Fett reconstructs the social world of these "recaptives" and recounts the relationships they built to survive the holds of slave ships, American detention camps, and, ultimately, a second transatlantic voyage to Liberia"-- 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781469630045 9781469630038 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Enslaved persons--Social conditions--United States--19th century.<br/>Enslaved persons--History--United States--19th century.<br/>Slave trade--History--United States--19th century.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>E453  / .R433 2017