{"product_id":"freedom-in-white-and-black-a-lost-story-of-the-illegal-slave-trade-and-its-global-legacy-9780299316204","title":"Freedom in White and Black: A Lost Story of the Illegal Slave Trade and Its Global Legacy","description":"By 1808, both Britain and the United States had passed laws outlawing the transatlantic slave trade. Yet the trade covertly carried on. In the summer of 1813, in what is now Liberia, a compound of slave pens was bursting with sick and anguished captives, guarded by other African slaves. As a British patrol swooped down on the illicit barracoon, the slavers burned the premises to the ground, hoping to destroy evidence. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This story can be told because of an exceptional trove of court documents that provides unparalleled insight into one small link in the great, horrific chain of slavery. Emma Christopher follows a trail of evidence across four continents to examine the lives of this barracoon's owners, their workers, and their tragic human merchandise. She reveals how an American, Charles Mason, escaped justice, while British subjects Robert Bostock and John McQueen were arrested. In court five African men-Tamba, Tom Ball, Yarra, Noah, and Sessay-courageously testified against their former owners\/captors. They, and 233 other liberated men, women, and children, were relocated to Freetown, Sierra Leone. There they endured harsh lives of \"freedom,\" while the punishment of Bostock and McQueen was fleeting. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e From the fragmented facts of these lives, Christopher sheds fascinating light on the early development of the nations of Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Australia (where Bostock and McQueen were banished) and the role of former slaves in combatting the illegal trade.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Emma Christopher\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Wisconsin Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/12\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 328\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.30w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780299316204\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEmma Christopher is a Scientia Fellow at the University of New South Wales, Australia. Her books include \u003ci\u003eSlave Ship Sailors and Their Captive Cargoes, 1730-1808\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eA Merciless Place: The Fate of Britain's Convicts after the American Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Kay Daniels Prize of the Australian Historical Association; and \u003ci\u003eMany Middle Passages: Forced Migration and the Making of the Modern World\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Wisconsin Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40455093452915,"sku":"9.7803E+12","price":37.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_dc3f2f8a-b74b-4545-81fc-33ee1daae617.jpg?v=1663680109","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/freedom-in-white-and-black-a-lost-story-of-the-illegal-slave-trade-and-its-global-legacy-9780299316204","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}