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

Author/creator Murray, Robert, 1983- author.
Format Book and Print
Publication Info Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2021.
Descriptionxiii, 281 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Subject(s)
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
Abstract "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 of race in the Atlantic world"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Murray, Robert, Atlantic passages Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2021. 9780813057736
Genre/formHistory.
LCCN 2020023366
ISBN9780813066752
ISBN0813066751 hardcover
ISBNelectronic book

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