2 Slave Trade Refugees and Imperial Agendas: The Resettlement of ‘Liberated Africans’ into British West Indian Regiments and Liberian Militias, 1808–60
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Laura Rosanne Adderley
Abstract
In the 19th century, both Great Britain and the United States engaged in efforts to suppress Atlantic slave trading, principally using naval force to interdict slave ships at sea under the authority of both national laws and a network of international treaties. Among many legal and practical complications, these policies presented both nations with novel resettlement challenges related to the enslaved Africans found aboard such vessels. In both cases, policy makers made the unusual decision that some male recaptives could be effectively resettled as ‘recruits’ into armed forces. This essay takes two case studies from the British and Liberian experiences of arming African recaptives. While both cases are arguably exceptional within the larger story of slave trade suppression, they provide useful windows into the ways in which recaptive settlement became intertwined with the politics of race, imperialism and social control, even as governments styled themselves as humanitarian actors working on behalf of these ‘refugees’ from the Atlantic slave trade.
Abstract
In the 19th century, both Great Britain and the United States engaged in efforts to suppress Atlantic slave trading, principally using naval force to interdict slave ships at sea under the authority of both national laws and a network of international treaties. Among many legal and practical complications, these policies presented both nations with novel resettlement challenges related to the enslaved Africans found aboard such vessels. In both cases, policy makers made the unusual decision that some male recaptives could be effectively resettled as ‘recruits’ into armed forces. This essay takes two case studies from the British and Liberian experiences of arming African recaptives. While both cases are arguably exceptional within the larger story of slave trade suppression, they provide useful windows into the ways in which recaptive settlement became intertwined with the politics of race, imperialism and social control, even as governments styled themselves as humanitarian actors working on behalf of these ‘refugees’ from the Atlantic slave trade.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front Matter i
- Contents v
- Notes on Authors vii
- Acknowledgements xii
- Series Preface xiv
- Introduction 1
- Slave Trade Refugees and Imperial Agendas: The Resettlement of ‘Liberated Africans’ into British West Indian Regiments and Liberian Militias, 1808–60 28
- Colonization, Territorialization and Displacement in Ottoman Migration Policy, 1856–1918 46
- Situating the Coloniality of Encampment and Deportation as a Mode of Mobility Governance: Insights from Ceuta and Melilla, Mayotte and Tanzania 61
- Colonial Continuities and the Commodification of Mobility Policing: French Civipol in West Africa 76
- Displaced, Profiled, Protected? Humanitarian Surveillance and New Approaches to Refugee Protection 93
- Of the Mobile and the Immobilized: COVID-19 and the Uneven Geographies of Disease Transmission 109
- The Long-term Influence of a Short-lived Colony: Postcoloniality and Geopolitics of Energy and Migration Control in Libya 125
- Echoes of Imperialism: Crisis, Conflict and the (Re)configurations of Otherness in the Evros/Edirne Borderlands 144
- The Practice of ‘Sanctuary’ and Refugee Protection in India 161
- Refugees and Political Theorists: The Problem of Complicity 176
- Singing Historical Reparations: Alabaoras Challenging the Spectacle of Forgiveness in Communities Affected by Deracination in Colombia 192
- The Subaltern Can Speak: The Mobility Strategies of Forced Migrants in Kenya’s Kalobeyei Integrated Settlement 209
- Conclusion: Postcoloniality and Forced Migration 223
- Index 237
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front Matter i
- Contents v
- Notes on Authors vii
- Acknowledgements xii
- Series Preface xiv
- Introduction 1
- Slave Trade Refugees and Imperial Agendas: The Resettlement of ‘Liberated Africans’ into British West Indian Regiments and Liberian Militias, 1808–60 28
- Colonization, Territorialization and Displacement in Ottoman Migration Policy, 1856–1918 46
- Situating the Coloniality of Encampment and Deportation as a Mode of Mobility Governance: Insights from Ceuta and Melilla, Mayotte and Tanzania 61
- Colonial Continuities and the Commodification of Mobility Policing: French Civipol in West Africa 76
- Displaced, Profiled, Protected? Humanitarian Surveillance and New Approaches to Refugee Protection 93
- Of the Mobile and the Immobilized: COVID-19 and the Uneven Geographies of Disease Transmission 109
- The Long-term Influence of a Short-lived Colony: Postcoloniality and Geopolitics of Energy and Migration Control in Libya 125
- Echoes of Imperialism: Crisis, Conflict and the (Re)configurations of Otherness in the Evros/Edirne Borderlands 144
- The Practice of ‘Sanctuary’ and Refugee Protection in India 161
- Refugees and Political Theorists: The Problem of Complicity 176
- Singing Historical Reparations: Alabaoras Challenging the Spectacle of Forgiveness in Communities Affected by Deracination in Colombia 192
- The Subaltern Can Speak: The Mobility Strategies of Forced Migrants in Kenya’s Kalobeyei Integrated Settlement 209
- Conclusion: Postcoloniality and Forced Migration 223
- Index 237
