Atlantic passages : race, mobility, and Liberian colonization / Robert Murray.

"Countering assumptions that the West African colony of Liberia was an endpoint in the journeys of the free people of color who traveled there, Robert Murray reveals that many Liberian settlers returned repeatedly to the United States, and he explores the ways this movement shaped the construction o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Murray, Robert, 1983- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2021.
Subjects:
Enslaved persons > Emancipation > United States.
African Americans > Colonization > Liberia.
Black people > Liberia.
Atlantic Ocean Region > Race relations.
Liberia > Emigration and immigration.
Liberia > History.
African Americans > Colonization.
Black people.
Emigration and immigration.
Race relations.
Enslaved persons > Emancipation.
Atlantic Ocean Region.
Liberia.
United States.
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xiii, 281 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • "To Be Called a Free Colored Man in the States is Synonymous with What We Here Term Slavery": Transformative Mobility and Liberian Travels through the United States
  • "All Those Things Desirable for a Map to Show": Space, Cartography, and Control in Colonial Liberia
  • "Nearly All Have Natives as Helps in their Families, and This is as it Should Be": The "Civilizing" Mission of Unfree Labor
  • "They Would Dearly Learn What It Was to Fight White Men" : Whitening through Violence in Liberia
  • "Your Views Cross the Atlantic": Black and White Responses to Settler Activism