Infernal Traffic: Excavation of a Liberated African Graveyard in Rupert's Valley, St Helena
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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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1902771893
ISBN13:9781902771892
Release Date:December 2011
Publisher:Council for British Archaeology
Length:178 Pages
Weight:1.70 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 8.2" x 11.6"
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