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In search of liberty : African American internationalism in the nineteenth-century Atlantic world /

"In Search of Liberty engages ways in which African Americans, since the founding of the United States, have understood their struggle for freedom and liberty as a feature of changes within the Atlantic world. The essays in this volume capture how African Americans grappled with those questions...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Johnson, Ronald Angelo, 1970- (Editor ), Power-Greene, Ousmane K. (Editor )
Formato: eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2021]
Colección:Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue / James Sidbury
  • Introduction / Ronald Angelo Johnson and Ousmane K. Power-Greene
  • North America
  • On the edge of freedom : the reenslavement of Elizabeth Watson in Nova Scotia / Franco Paz and Harvey Amani Whitfield
  • A scheme to desert : the Louisiana Purchase and freedom seekers in the Louisiana-Texas borderlands, 1804-1806 / Mekala Audain
  • Looking for freedom in the borderlands : U.S. black refugees from slavery in Early Independent Mexico, 1821-1836 / Thomas Mareite
  • Africa
  • The international migration of South Carolinian free people of color, 1780-1865 / Lawrence Aje
  • Liberia as a theater : performance, race-making, and the Liberian nationality / Caree A. Banton
  • The making of a Pan-Africanist : George Henry Jackson and the Lukunga Mission in the Congo Free State / Marcus Bruce
  • Caribbean
  • The British emigration scheme and the African American emigration movement to the Caribbean / Dexter J. Gabriel
  • A reinterpretation of African Americans and Haitian emigration / Brandon R. Byrd
  • Frederick Douglass and debates over the annexation of the Dominican Republic / Claire Bourhuis-Mariotti
  • Europe
  • African American women in Europe / Pia Wiegmink
  • Black abolitionists in Ireland and the challenge of universal reform / Angela F. Murphy
  • Epilogue / Gerald Horns.