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table of contents
  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. List of illustrations
  6. Praise for Freedom Seekers
  7. About the author
  8. A note on language
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. Escape Route by Abena Essah
  11. Prologue: Ben
  12. PART I Restoration London and the enslaved
    1. 1.  London
    2. 2.  The Black community
    3. 3.  Freedom seekers in Restoration London
  13. PART II The freedom seekers
    1. 4.  Jack: boys
    2. 5.  Francisco/Bugge: South Asians
    3. 6.  ‘A black Girl’ and ‘an Indian black girl’: female freedom seekers
    4. 7.  Caesar: country marks
    5. 8.  Benjamin: branded
    6. 9.  Pompey: shackled
    7. 10. Quoshey: escaping from ships and their captains
    8. 11. Goude: Thames-side maritime communities
    9. 12. Quamy: merchants, bankers, printers and coffee houses
    10. 13. David Sugarr and Henry Mundy: escaping from colonial planters in London
    11. 14. Calib and ‘a Madagascar Negro’: freedom seekers in the London suburbs and beyond
    12. 15. Peter: London’s connected community of slave-ownership
  14. PART III Freedom seekers in the colonies
    1. 16. Freedom seekers and the law in England’s American and Caribbean colonies
    2. 17. London precedents in New World contexts: the runaway advertisement in the colonies
  15. Epilogue: King
  16. Index

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UNIVERSITY OF LONDON

SCHOOL OF ADVANCED STUDY

INSTITUTE OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH

Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

© Simon P. Newman 2022

The author has asserted his right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 to be identified as the author of this work

This book is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license. More information regarding CC licenses is available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/

Available to download free at http://www.humanities-digital-library.org

ISBNs

978-1-912702-93-0 (paperback)

978-1-912702-94-7 (.pdf)

978-1-914477-24-9 (.epub)

DOI: 10.14296/202202.9781912702947

Cover image: Wenceslaus Hollar, London. The Long View (1647). Call MAP L85c no.29 part 2. Used by permission of the Folger Shakespeare Library under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Cover design by Nicky Borowiec.

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