More Auspicious Shores

More Auspicious Shores

Barbadian Migration to Liberia, Blackness, and the Making of an African Republic

Banton, Caree A. (University of Arkansas)

Cambridge University Press

04/2019

362

Dura

Inglês

9781108429634

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More Auspicious Shores offers a thorough examination of Afro-Barbadian migration to Liberia during the mid- to late nineteenth century. Caree A. Banton effectively explores the political and sociocultural consequences of their settlement in Africa and how it influenced the meaning of blackness in the Atlantic World.
List of maps and figures; Preface; List of abbreviations; Introduction: 'who is this man and from whence comes he to rule?'; Part I. Caribbean Emancipation: 1. Not free indeed; 2. African civilization and the West Indian avant-garde; 3. The Liberian president visits Barbados to trade visions of freedom; Part II. The Middle Passage: 4. Middle passage baggage; Part III. African Liberation: 5. Barbadians arrival and social integration in Liberia; 6. Making citizenship and blackness in Liberia; 7. A changing of the guards: Arthur Barclay and Barbadian Liberia political leadership; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.
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