The Brink of Freedom : Improvising Life in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World /

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In The Brink of Freedom David Kazanjian revises dominant understandings of nineteenth-century conceptions of freedom by examining the letters of black settler colonists in Liberia and the letters and literature of Mayan rebels and their Creole antagonists in Yucatán, showing how they disrupted libe...

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Main Author: Kazanjian, David, 1967- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Mayas > Mexique > Yucatán (État) > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Noirs americains > Colonisation > Liberia > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Mayas > Mexico > Yucatán (State) > History > 19th century.
African Americans > Colonization > Liberia > History > 19th century.
Freedom in literature.
Slaves > Emancipation > United States.
Umsiedlung
Sklave
Schwarze
Kolonisation
Freiheit > Motiv
Mayas.
African Americans > Colonization.
HISTORY > Africa > General.
HISTORY > Africa > West.
Yucatán (Mexique : État) > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Liberia > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Liberia > History > 19th century.
Liberia
Mexico > Yucatán (State)
Liberia.
Yucatán (Mexico : State) > History > 19th century.
Liberia > History > 20th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:In The Brink of Freedom David Kazanjian revises dominant understandings of nineteenth-century conceptions of freedom by examining the letters of black settler colonists in Liberia and the letters and literature of Mayan rebels and their Creole antagonists in Yucatán, showing how they disrupted liberal formations of freedom.
Physical Description:1 online resource (335 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780822374107

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