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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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Athens :
The University of Georgia Press,
[2021]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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.