More auspicious shores : Barbadian migration to Liberia, Blackness, and the making of an African republic /

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 a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Banton, Caree A., 1982- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2019]
Subjects:	Barbadians > Liberia > History. Liberia > History > 1847-1944. Liberia > Emigration and immigration > 19th century. Barbados > Emigration and immigration > 19th century.

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.