
In Search of Liberty
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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.
Content
- Intro
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Prologue
- Introduction
- Part 1. North America
- One: On the Edge of Freedom: The Reenslavement of Elizabeth Watson in Nova Scotia
- Two: A Scheme to Desert: The Louisiana Purchase and Freedom Seekers in the Louisiana-Texas Borderlands, 1804-1806
- Three: Looking for Freedom in the Borderlands: U.S. Black Refugees from Slavery in Early Independent Mexico, 1821-1836
- Part 2. Africa
- Four: The International Migration of South Carolinian Free People of Color, 1780-1865
- Five: Liberia as a Theater: Performance, Race-Making, and the Liberian Nationality
- Six: The Making of a Pan-Africanist: George Henry Jackson and the Lukunga Mission in the Congo Free State
- Part 3. Caribbean
- Seven: The British Emigration Scheme and the African American Emigration Movement to the Caribbean
- Eight: A Reinterpretation of African Americans and Haitian Emigration
- Nine: Frederick Douglass and Debates over the Annexation of the Dominican Republic
- Part 4. Europe
- Ten: African American Women in Europe
- Eleven: Black Abolitionists in Ireland and the Challenge of Universal Reform
- Epilogue
- Contributors
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