DOI: https://doi.org/10.15368/theses.2021.72
Available at: https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/2307
Date of Award
6-2021
Degree Name
MA in History
Department/Program
History
College
College of Liberal Arts
Advisor
Andrew D. Morris
Advisor Department
History
Advisor College
College of Liberal Arts
Abstract
In 1807, Parliament passed an Act to abolish the slave trade, leading to the Royal Navy’s campaign of policing international waters and seizing ships suspected of illegal trading. As the Royal Navy captured slave ships as prizes of war and condemned enslaved Africans to Vice-Admiralty courts, formerly enslaved Africans became “captured negroes” or “liberated Africans,” making the subjects in the British colonies. This work, which takes a microhistorical approach to investigate the everyday experiences of liberated Africans in Tortola during the early nineteenth century, focuses on the violent conditions of liberated African women, demonstrating that abolition consisted of violent contradictions that mirrored slavery.
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