The Bonds of FreedomThe story of the long fight for freedom of African captives rescued from the illegal slave trade only to be forced back into bondage. The Bonds of Freedom tells the forgotten story of people seized from slave ships by maritime patrols, "liberated," then forced into bonded labour between 1807 and 1880. Using extensive archival research from Sierra Leone, South Africa, Brazil, Cuba, the United Kingdom, and the United States, historian Jake Subryan