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Freedom Seekers: Escaping from Slavery in Restoration London: 9781914477249_epub-2

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

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UNIVERSITY OF LONDON

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INSTITUTE OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH

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© 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/

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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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