recaptiven.adj.

1832 Afr. Repository & Colonial Jrnl. Sept. 210 Our recaptives of the Congo Tribe, have progressed so far in civilization, that several frames [for houses]..are preparing to be erected during the present season.

1847 Ann. Rep. Amer Colonization Soc. 17/1 The citizens of Liberia have had a vast amount of trouble with these recaptives.

1903 Jrnl. Afr. Soc. 3 86 The first slave ships captured under the new law arrived at Sierra Leone in 1810, and landed a number of recaptives.

1962 C. Fyfe Hist. Sierra Leone xviii. 470 The old religions brought forth from the recaptives' homelands were slowly dying out.

1991 R. Oliver Afr. Experience (1993) xiii. 170 Most recaptives were initially landed at the special settlements established by the British at Freetown, Sierra Leone, and by the French at Libreville in modern Gabon.

2001 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 5 July 55/3 Liberia received only 5,700 recaptives.

1856 J. L. Wilson Western Afr. iv. iii. 448 The temporary support of recaptive slaves.

1864 Afr. Repository May 131 Buildings, erected..for the direct and indirect use of Recaptive Africans.

1964 Jrnl. Afr. Hist. 5 215 A dispute between Dahomean soldiers, recaptive traders, and the Whydah slave dealer F. F. da Souza.

1991 R. Oliver Afr. Experience (1993) xiii. 170 Before long..many recaptive families sought ways of repatriating themselves.