Almost Dead: Slavery and Social Rebirth in the Black Urban Atlantic, 1680-1807

by Michael Lawrence Dickinson

Beginning in the late seventeenth century and concluding with the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade, Almost Dead reveals how the thousands of captives who lived, bled, and resisted in the Black Urban Atlantic survived to form dynamic communities.

Michael Lawrence Dickinson uses cities with close commercial ties to shed light on similarities, variations, and linkages between urban Atlantic slave communities in mainland America...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820362255
• ISBN13: 9780820362250
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"