Freedom Seekers: Escaping from Slavery in Restoration London

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CONTENTS
List of illustrations
About the author
A note on language
Acknowledgements

Escape Route by Abena Essah
Prologue: Ben

PART I Restoration London and the enslaved
1. London
2. The Black community
3. Freedom seekers in Restoration London

PART II The freedom seekers
4. Jack: boys
5. Francisco/Bugge: South Asians
6. ‘A black Girl’ and ‘an Indian black girl’: female freedom seekers
7. Caesar: country marks
8. Benjamin: branded
9. Pompey: shackled
10. Quoshey: escaping from ships and their captains
11. Goude: Thames-side maritime communities
12. Quamy: merchants, bankers, printers and coffee houses
13. David Sugarr and Henry Mundy: escaping from colonial planters in London
14. Calib and ‘a Madagascar Negro’: freedom seekers in the London suburbs and beyond
15. Peter: London’s connected community of slave-ownership

PART III Freedom seekers in the colonies
16. Freedom seekers and the law in England’s American and Caribbean colonies
17. London precedents in New World contexts: the runawaymadvertisement in the colonies

Epilogue: King
Index