Race and Nation in the Age of Emancipations edited by Whitney Nell Stewart, John Garrison Marks.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Marks, John Garrison, editor.

Stewart, Whitney Nell, editor.

Series:

Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900.

Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Citizenship--History.

Citizenship.

Liberty--History.

Liberty.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2018

Place of Publication:

Athens, Georgia : University of Georgia Press, 2018.

Summary:

Over the long nineteenth century, African-descended peoples used the uncertainties and possibilities of emancipation to stake claims to freedom, equality, and citizenship. In the process, people of color transformed the contours of communities, nations, and the Atlantic World. Although emancipation was an Atlantic event, it has been studied most often in geographically isolated ways. The justification for such local investigations rests in the notion that imperial and national contexts are essential to understanding slaving regimes. Just as the experience of slavery differed throughout the Atlantic World, so too did the experience of emancipation, as enslaved people's paths to freedom varied depending on time and place. With the essays in this volume, historians contend that emancipation was not something that simply happened to enslaved peoples but rather something in which they actively participated. By viewing local experiences through an Atlantic framework, the contributors reveal how emancipation was both a shared experience across national lines and one shaped by the particularities of a specific nation. Their examination uncovers, in detail, the various techniques employed by people of African descent across the Atlantic World, allowing a broader picture of their paths to freedom. Contributors: Ikuko Asaka, Caree A. Banton, Celso Thomas Castilho, Gad Heuman, Martha S. Jones, Philip Kaisary, John Garrison Marks, Paul J. Polgar, James E. Sanders, Julie Saville, Matthew Spooner, Whitney Nell Stewart, and Andrew N. Wegmann.

Contents:

Introduction / Whitney Nell Stewart and John Garrison Marks

Mobility and migration

Freedom, reenslavement, and movement in the revolutionary South / Matthew Spooner

To fashion ourselves citizens: colonization, belonging, and the problem of nationhood in the Atlantic South, 1829-1859 / Andrew N. Wegmann

Exiles in America: Canadian anti-black racism and the meaning of nation in the age of the 1848 revolutions / Ikuko Asaka

Law and legal status

"To break our chains and form a free people": race, nation, and Haiti's Imperial Constitution of 1805 / Philip Kaisary

Seaman and citizen: learning the law of citizenship, from Baltimore to Valparaiso / Martha S. Jones

Labor and freedom

Apprenticeship and emancipation in the Caribbean: the seeds of citizenship / Gad Heuman

Who is black in a black republic? Labor in the remaking of black citizenship in Liberia / Caree A. Banton

Race and the public sphere

Race and belonging in the new American nation: the republican roots of black abolitionism / Paul J. Polgar

"All the inhabitants of this America are citizens" : imagining equality

Nation, and citizenship in an Atlantic frame / James E. Sanders

The racial terms of citizenship: abolition and its political aftermath in northeastern Brazil / Celso Thomas Castilho.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8203-5309-4

OCLC:

1030892946