Atlantic passages : race, mobility, and Liberian colonization /

Atlantic passages : race, mobility, and Liberian colonization /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Murray, Robert, 1983- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2021]
Subjects:
Slaves > Emancipation > United States.
African Americans > Colonization > Liberia.
Blacks > Liberia.
Atlantic Ocean Region > Race relations.
Liberia > Emigration and immigration.
Liberia > History.
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:xiii, 281 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780813066752
0813066751