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Tropical Freedom : Climate, Settler Colonialism, and Black Exclusion in the Age of Emancipation /

Ikuko Asaka examines emancipation's intersection with settler colonialism in North America, showing how emancipation efforts in the United States and present-day Canada were accompanied by attempts to relocate freed blacks to tropical regions, thereby conceiving freedom as a racially segregated...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Asaka, Ikuko, 1975- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2017.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Ikuko Asaka examines emancipation's intersection with settler colonialism in North America, showing how emancipation efforts in the United States and present-day Canada were accompanied by attempts to relocate freed blacks to tropical regions, thereby conceiving freedom as a racially segregated condition based upon geography and climate.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (303 pages).
ISBN:9780822372752