In search of liberty : African American internationalism in the nineteenth-century Atlantic world / edited by Ronald Angelo Johnson and Ousmane K. Power-Greene.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Johnson, Ronald Angelo, 1970- editor.

Power-Greene, Ousmane K., editor.

Series:

Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--History--19th century.

African Americans.

African Americans--Foreign countries--History.

Foreign countries.

History.

Free Black people--America--History--19th century.

Free Black people.

Antislavery movements--History--19th century.

Antislavery movements.

Internationalism.

Race relations.

United States--Race relations--Political aspects--History--19th century.

United States.

Internationalism--History--19th century.

African diaspora.

Race relations--Political aspects.

America.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xvi, 306 pages ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

African American internationalism in the nineteenth-century Atlantic world

Place of Publication:

Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2021]

Summary:

"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, as the struggle for liberty in the United States continued through the end of the nineteenth century, when new regimes of power implemented systems of racial oppression that truncated what the historian Hasan Kwame Jeffries calls "Freedom Rights" for freedmen and women after the passing of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments. This book charts the diverse ways in which African Americans utilized the Atlantic world in search of the ideals of liberty that they were denied at home. Black internationalism included emigration abroad, lecture tours in Europe denouncing slavery, and missionary activity in King Leopold's Congo, illustrating an international consciousness among black Americans. In Search of Liberty is the only edited collection on Black Internationalism during the nineteenth century. The contributors represented in this volume come from diverse localities, scholarly interest and backgrounds. By breaking from the imposition of traditional periodization, this book shows how black freedom struggles in the US are rooted in a Pan-African identity prior to the movements of the 20th century"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 North America

One. On The Edge Of Freedom: The Reenslavement Of Elizabeth Watson In Nova Scotia / Harvey Amani Whitfield

Two. A Scheme To Desert: The Louisiana Purchase And Freedom Seekers In The Louisiana-Texas Borderlands, 1804

1806 / Mekala Audain

Three. Looking For Freedom In The Borderlands: U.S. Black Refugees From Slavery In Early Independent Mexico, 1821

1836 / Thomas Mareite

pt. 2 Africa

Four. The International Migration Of South Carolinian Free People Of Color, 1780

1865 / Lawrence Aje

Five. Liberia As A Theater: Performance, Race-Making, And The Liberian Nationality / Caree A. Banton

Six. The Making Of A Pan-Africanist: George Henry Jackson And The Lukunga Mission In The Congo Free State / Marcus Bruce

pt. 3 Caribbean

Seven. The British Emigration Scheme And The African American Emigration Movement To The Caribbean / Dexter J. Gabriel

Eight. A Reinterpretation Of African Americans And Haitian Emigration / Brandon R. Byrd

Nine. Frederick Douglass And Debates Over The Annexation Of The Dominican Republic / Claire Bourhis-Mariotti

pt. 4 Europe

Ten. African American Women In Europe / Pia Wiegmink

Eleven. Black Abolitionists In Ireland And The Challenge Of Universal Reform / Angela F. Murphy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780820360089

0820360082

9780820360102

0820360104

OCLC:

1227866470