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  title info:
    title: In search of liberty
    sub title: African American internationalism in the nineteenth-century Atlantic world
  name:
    name part: Johnson, Ronald Angelo
    name part: 1970-
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Power-Greene, Ousmane K.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gau
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvi, 306 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: 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 United States are rooted in a Pan-African identity prior to the movements of the 20th century.
  table of contents: Prologue / James Sidbury -- Introduction / Ronald Angelo Johnson and Ousmane K. Power-Greene -- North America -- On the edge of freedom : the reenslavement of Elizabeth Watson in Nova Scotia / Franco Paz and Harvey Amani Whitfield -- A scheme to desert : the Louisiana Purchase and freedom seekers in the Louisiana-Texas borderlands, 1804-1806 / Mekala Audain -- Looking for freedom in the borderlands : U.S. black refugees from slavery in Early Independent Mexico, 1821-1836 / Thomas Mareite -- Africa -- The international migration of South Carolinian free people of color, 1780-1865 / Lawrence Aje -- Liberia as a theater : performance, race-making, and the Liberian nationality / Caree A. Banton
  table of contents: Caribbean -- The British emigration scheme and the African American emigration movement to the Caribbean / Dexter J. Gabriel -- A reinterpretation of African Americans and Haitian emigration / Brandon R. Byrd -- Frederick Douglass and debates over the annexation of the Dominican Republic / Claire Bourhuis-Mariotti -- Europe -- African American women in Europe / Pia Wiegmink -- Black abolitionists in Ireland and the challenge of universal reform / Angela F. Murphy -- Epilogue / Gerald Horns.
  note: edited by Ronald Angelo Johnson and Ousmane K. Power-Greene.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
    geographic code: l------
  subject:
    topic: African Americans
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: African Americans
    topic: Foreign countries
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Free blacks
    geographic: America
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: Antislavery movements
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Race relations
    topic: Political aspects
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: Internationalism
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: African diaspora
  classification: E185.18 .I525 2021
  classification: 304.8096
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900
  identifier: 9780820360089
  identifier: 0820360082
  identifier: 9780820360102
  identifier: 0820360104
  identifier: 9780820360096
  identifier: 2020055867
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 201214
    record change date: 20211018102446.0
    record identifier: in00004449810