TY - BOOK ID - 101136129 TI - Freedom Seekers. : Escaping from Slavery in Restoration London PY - 2022 SN - 1912702940 1912702932 PB - London DB - UniCat KW - Fugitive slaves. KW - Slavery. KW - Abolition of slavery KW - Antislavery KW - Enslavement KW - Mui tsai KW - Ownership of slaves KW - Servitude KW - Slave keeping KW - Slave system KW - Slaveholding KW - Thralldom KW - Crimes against humanity KW - Serfdom KW - Slaveholders KW - Slaves KW - Runaway slaves KW - Slavery KW - Fugitive slaves KW - slavery KW - Britain KW - colonialism,colonial Britain KW - Samuel Pepys KW - slave-owners KW - slavery in Britain KW - Restoration Britain KW - Restoration London KW - London KW - slavery in London KW - Aldgate KW - Whitechapel KW - coffee shops KW - slave trade KW - transatlantic slave trade KW - runaway slaves KW - freemen KW - Africa KW - gold KW - sugar KW - plantation KW - colonial America KW - Thomas Jefferson KW - Jamaica KW - Barbados KW - newspapers KW - media history KW - slave advertisment KW - slave recapture KW - freedom KW - Enslaved persons UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:101136129 AB - Freedom Seekers reveals the hidden stories of enslaved and bound people who attempted to escape from captivity in England’s capital. In 1655 White Londoners began advertising in the English-speaking world’s first newspapers for enslaved people who had escaped. Based on the advertisements placed in these newspapers by masters and enslavers offering rewards for so-called runaways, this book brings to light for the first time the history of slavery in England as revealed in the stories of resistance by enslaved workers. Featuring a series of case-studies of individual "freedom-seekers", this book explores the nature and significance of escape attempts as well as detailing the likely routes and networks they would take to gain their freedom. The book demonstrates that not only were enslaved people present in Restoration London but that White Londoners of this era were intimately involved in the construction of the system of racial slavery, a process that traditionally has been regarded as happening in the colonies rather than the British Isles. An unmissable and important book that seeks to delve into Britain’s colonial past. ER -