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  title info:
    title: More auspicious shores
    sub title: Barbadian migration to Liberia, Blackness, and the making of an African republic
  name:
    name part: Banton, Caree A.
    name part: 1982-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvii, 366 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: Introduction: "Who is this man and from whence comes he to rule?" -- Caribbean emancipation -- Not free indeed -- African civilization and the West Indian avant-garde -- The Liberian president visits Barbados to trade visions of freedom -- The middle passage -- Middle passage baggage -- African liberation -- Barbadians arrival and social integration in Liberia -- Making citizenship and blackness in Liberia -- A changing of the guards : Arthur Barclay and Barbadian Liberia political leadership -- Epilogue.
  note: Caree A. Banton.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-351) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: f-lb---
    geographic code: nwbb---
  subject:
    topic: Barbadians
    geographic: Liberia
    topic: History
  subject:
    geographic: Liberia
    topic: History
    temporal: 1847-1944
  subject:
    geographic: Liberia
    topic: Emigration and immigration
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    geographic: Barbados
    topic: Emigration and immigration
    temporal: 19th century
  classification: DT643 .B36 2019
  classification: 966.6200496072981
  identifier: 9781108429634
  identifier: 1108429637
  identifier: 2018042765
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 180911
    record change date: 20191021075006.0
    record identifier: in00004075194