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  • 4 - Bonds of Survival

  • Shantel A. George, University of Glasgow
  • Book:
    The Yoruba Are on a Rock
    Published online:
    18 September 2025
    Print publication:
    09 October 2025, pp 129-160
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    Liberated Africans sought freedom and solidarity during their enlistment and indenture that impaired the process of creolisation. Chapter 4 draws out their experiences from several documentary accounts; these often neglect the physical and emotional trauma endured during the crossing. It examines the coercive nature of enlistment, allocation to the estates, the nature of work regimes, and how recaptives wrestled with those conditions. The chapter stresses the restrictions liberated Africans experienced, the ways local and imperial forces sought to 'civilise' them, and how recaptives drew on shared African histories and experiences in the homeland and the Caribbean to pursue freedom.