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In Search of Liberty explores how African Americans, since the
founding of the United States, have understood their struggles for
freedom as part of the larger Atlantic world. The essays in this
volume capture the pursuits of equality and justice by African
Americans across the Atlantic World through the end of the
nineteenth century, as their fights for emancipation and
enfranchisement in the United States continued. This book
illuminates stories of individual Black people striving to escape
slavery in places like Nova Scotia, Louisiana, and Mexico and
connects their eff orts to emigration movements from the United
States to Africa and the Caribbean, as well as to Black
abolitionist campaigns in Europe. By placing these diverse stories
in conversation, editors Ronald Angelo Johnson and Ousmane K.
Power-Greene have curated a larger story that is only beginning to
be told. By focusing on Black internationalism in the eighteenth
and nineteenth centuries, In Search of Liberty reveals that Black
freedom struggles in the United States were rooted in transnational
networks much earlier than the better-known movements of the
twentieth century.
In Search of Liberty explores how African Americans, since the
founding of the United States, have understood their struggles for
freedom as part of the larger Atlantic world. The essays in this
volume capture the pursuits of equality and justice by African
Americans across the Atlantic World through the end of the
nineteenth century, as their fights for emancipation and
enfranchisement in the United States continued. This book
illuminates stories of individual Black people striving to escape
slavery in places like Nova Scotia, Louisiana, and Mexico and
connects their eff orts to emigration movements from the United
States to Africa and the Caribbean, as well as to Black
abolitionist campaigns in Europe. By placing these diverse stories
in conversation, editors Ronald Angelo Johnson and Ousmane K.
Power-Greene have curated a larger story that is only beginning to
be told. By focusing on Black internationalism in the eighteenth
and nineteenth centuries, In Search of Liberty reveals that Black
freedom struggles in the United States were rooted in transnational
networks much earlier than the better-known movements of the
twentieth century.
More Auspicious Shores chronicles the migration of Afro-Barbadians
to Liberia. In 1865, 346 Afro-Barbadians fled a failed
post-emancipation Caribbean for the independent black republic of
Liberia. They saw Liberia as a means of achieving their
post-emancipation goals and promoting a pan-Africanist agenda while
simultaneously fulfilling their 'civilizing' and 'Christianizing'
duties. Through a close examination of the Afro-Barbadians, Caree
A. Banton provides a transatlantic approach to understanding the
political and sociocultural consequences of their migration and
settlement in Africa. Banton reveals how, as former British
subjects, Afro-Barbadians navigated an inherent tension between
ideas of pan-Africanism and colonial superiority. Upon their
arrival in Liberia, an English imperial identity distinguished the
Barbadians from African Americans and secured them privileges in
the Republic's hierarchy above the other group. By fracturing
assumptions of a homogeneous black identity, Banton ultimately
demonstrates how Afro-Barbadian settlement in Liberia influenced
ideas of blackness in the Atlantic World.
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