In Search of Liberty: African American Internationalism in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World (Race in the Atlantic World, 1700–1900) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0820360082 ISBN 13: 9780820360089

Publisher: University of Georgia Press, 2021

Synopsis

In Search of Liberty explores how African Americans, since the founding of the United States, have understood their struggles for freedom as part of the larger Atlantic world. The essays in this volume capture the pursuits of equality and justice by African Americans across the Atlantic World through the end of the nineteenth century, as their fights for emancipation and enfranchisement in the United States continued. This book illuminates stories of individual Black people striving to escape slavery in places like Nova Scotia, Louisiana, and Mexico and connects their eff orts to emigration movements from the United States to Africa and the Caribbean, as well as to Black abolitionist campaigns in Europe.

By placing these diverse stories in conversation, editors Ronald Angelo Johnson and Ousmane K. Power-Greene have curated a larger story that is only beginning to be told. By focusing on Black internationalism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, In Search of Liberty reveals that Black freedom struggles in the United States were rooted in transnational networks much earlier than the better-known movements of the twentieth century.

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About the Author

Ronald Angelo Johnson (Editor)
RONALD ANGELO JOHNSON is the Ralph and Bessie Mae Lynn Professor of History at Baylor University. He is the author of Diplomacy in Black and White: John Adams, Toussaint Louverture, and Their Atlantic World Alliance. He has also served as a U.S. diplomat at embassies in Gabon and Luxembourg, and he has worked as an analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency. He is also a chaplain in the U.S. Navy Reserve.

Ousmane K. Power-Greene (Editor)
OUSMANE POWER-GREEN is a professor of history at Clark University. He is the author of Against Wind and Tide: The African American Struggle against the Colonization Movement. His work has also appeared in The Harlem Renaissance Revisited: Politics, Arts, and Letters.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0820360082
• ISBN 13: 9780820360089
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 326
• Editor: Johnson Ronald, Power-Greene Dr. Ousmane K.