Dr. Lynn Price Robbins and Isaac S. Loftus welcome Dr. Jake Subryan Richards to examine the uncertain path to freedom for Africans rescued from the illegal slave trade in the nineteenth-century Atlantic World. Their stories reveal legal struggles, efforts to build new communities, and the ongoing fight for justice and autonomy amid persistent obstacles.

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CHAPTERS:
0:00 - Introductions
1:20 - What led to your research?
2:56 - Transatlantic History Beyond the US
4:25 - Contextualizing the Language Used in the Altlantic Slave Trade
9:47 - The Bonds of Freedom
12:42 - What is the 14 Year Rule and Who Started it?
17:35 - What Was the Moral Rationale?
21:26 - What Happened to the “Liberated” Africans? The Different Phases of the Courts
29:48 - Memories Before Enslavement
32:11 - Did The Privateers Collect Rewards After Liberating the Enslaved?
34:34 - Building Community After Liberation
36:39 - Differences Between Apprenticeship vs Slavery
41:09 - Implicit or Explicit Policing
42:36 - Slave Societies vs Societies with Slaves: The Ability to Gain Civil Rights
48:12 - Identity, Companionship and Life After
54:35 - A Global Community
57:21 - Reorienting Atlantic History
1:01:48 - Closing Thoughts And Where to Visit

EPISODE LINKS:
Dr. Jake Subryan Richards - https://www.lse.ac.uk/International-History/People/academicStaff/richards/richards
The Bonds of Freedom: Liberated Africans & the End of the Slave Trade - https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300263206/the-bonds-of-freedom/
Transatlantic Slave Trade – https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-resources/teacher-resources/historical-context-facts-about-slave-trade-and-slavery
1807 British Abolition Act- https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/law/1807-act-abolition-slave-trade-british-empire
1808 U.S. Act Prohibiting the Importation of Slaves - https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/slave-trade.html
Black Loyalists – https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/history/black-loyalists
Sierra Leone – https://www.britannica.com/place/Sierra-Leone
Liberia - https://www.britannica.com/place/Liberia
Eusébio de Queirós - https://www.encyclopedia.com/humanities/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/queiros-coutinho-matoso-da-camera-eusebio-de-1812-1868
U.S. Reconstruction - https://www.britannica.com/event/Reconstruction-United-States-history
Pan-Africanism - https://www.britannica.com/topic/Pan-Africanism
James Africanus Horton - https://blackpast.org/global-african-history/horton-james-africanus-beale-1835-1883/
W.E.B. Du Bois - https://www.britannica.com/biography/W-E-B-Du-Bois
A Story of Bones - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt19796824/

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