In Search of Liberty
African American Internationalism in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World
Published on 15. July 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
326 pages
978-0-8203-6010-2 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
Reviews / Votes
In Search of Liberty extends our understanding of African American internationalism during the nineteenth century, just as it illuminates the experiences of those Black individuals who sought refuge across the larger Atlantic world. Scholarly and accessible, it sets an important marker that will shape future work in this area. -- J.R. Oldfield * The Journal of American History * The interdisciplinary approach of In Search of Liberty is an important example for students in African American and African Diaspora studies programs, as the comparison of history, literature, and theater in some of the essays is compelling and an important intervention in studies of Black internationalism, which are often focused on a single discipline. -- Stephanie J. Richmond * The Journal of the Civil War Era * In Search of Liberty charts American Black peoples' experiences navigating freedom and shifting meanings of Blackness that often differed depending on where they were within the Atlantic world. . . . [T]he book's authors contribute to a growing wave of scholarship that reexamines the American experience through the lens of Black internationalism. -- Joshua Crutchfield * The Journal of African American History *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Georgia
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
534 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8203-6010-2 (9780820360102)
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Ronald Johnson | Ousmane K. Power-Greene
In Search of Liberty
African American Internationalism in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World
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07/2021
University of Georgia Press
€42.99
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Persons
RONALD ANGELO JOHNSON is the Ralph and Bessie Mae Lynn Chair of History at Baylor University. He is the author of Diplomacy in Black and White: John Adams, Toussaint Louverture, and Their Atlantic World Alliance. OUSMANE POWER-GREENE 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. CLAIRE BOURHIS-MARIOTTI is a professor of African American history and the codirector of the research unit TransCrit at the University of Paris 8-Paris Lumieres. She is the author of Isaac Mason: Une vie d'esclave and coeditor of Writing History from the Margins: African Americans and the Quest for Freedom.