Freedom Seekers: Escaping from Slavery in Restoration London

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About the author A note on language Acknowledgements Escape Route Prologue: Ben Part I Restoration London and the enslaved 1. London 2. The Black community 3. Freedom seekers in Restoration London Part II The freedom seekers 4. Jack: boys 5. Francisco/Bugge: South Asians 6. ‘A black Girl’ and ‘an Indian black girl’: female freedom seekers 7. Caesar: country marks 8. Benjamin: branded 9. Pompey: shackled 10. Quoshey: escaping from ships and their captains 11. Goude: Thames-side maritime communities 12. Quamy: merchants, bankers, printers and coffee houses 13. David Sugarr and Henry Mundy: escaping from colonial planters in London 14. Calib and ‘a Madagascar Negro’: freedom seekers in the London suburbs and beyond 15. ‘Peter’: London’s connected community of slave-ownership Part III Freedom seekers in the colonies 16. Freedom seekers and the law in England’s American and Caribbean colonies 17. London precedents in New World contexts: the runaway advertisement in the colonies Epilogue: King Index