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Infernal Traffic: Excavation of a Liberated African Graveyard in Rupert's Valley, St Helena (Cba Research Report)
Andrew Pearson
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Description for Infernal Traffic: Excavation of a Liberated African Graveyard in Rupert's Valley, St Helena (Cba Research Report)
Paperback. Num Pages: 204 pages. BIC Classification: 1QSAS; 3JH; HDD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 297 x 210 x 15. Weight in Grams: 786.
Britain's abolition of the slave trade in 1807 did not end the traffic of human beings across the Atlantic. Indeed, for many decades to come, hundreds of thousands of enslaved Africans continued to be shipped into slavery. From 1840 to 1872 the remote South Atlantic island of St Helena played a pivotal role in Britain's efforts to suppress the slave trade, and over this time it received over 25,000 'liberated Africans', taken from slave ships by Royal Navy patrols. Conditions aboard the slavers were appalling, and many did not survive the journey. Rupert's Valley therefore became a graveyard to many ... Read more
Britain's abolition of the slave trade in 1807 did not end the traffic of human beings across the Atlantic. Indeed, for many decades to come, hundreds of thousands of enslaved Africans continued to be shipped into slavery. From 1840 to 1872 the remote South Atlantic island of St Helena played a pivotal role in Britain's efforts to suppress the slave trade, and over this time it received over 25,000 'liberated Africans', taken from slave ships by Royal Navy patrols. Conditions aboard the slavers were appalling, and many did not survive the journey. Rupert's Valley therefore became a graveyard to many ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Council for British Archaeology
Condition
New
Number of Pages
204
Place of Publication
York, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781902771892
SKU
V9781902771892
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99-21
Reviews for Infernal Traffic: Excavation of a Liberated African Graveyard in Rupert's Valley, St Helena (Cba Research Report)
This is a timely and important work, essential reading for cultural historians of the nineteenth century, historical archaeologists, human remains specialists, those with an interest in funerary archaeology and indeed those like the current reviewer with an interest in the archaeology of the African Diaspora. Away from the undoubted value of this report as an archaeological research document, it retains ... Read more