More auspicious shores : Barbadian migration to Liberia, Blackness, and the making of an African republic /

More auspicious shores : Barbadian migration to Liberia, Blackness, and the making of an African republic /

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Author / Creator:	Banton, Caree A., 1982- author.
Imprint:	Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019. ©2019
Description:	xvii, 366 pages ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Barbadians -- Liberia -- History. Barbadians. Emigration and immigration. Liberia -- History -- 1847-1944. Liberia -- Emigration and immigration -- 19th century. Barbados -- Emigration and immigration -- 19th century. Barbados. Liberia. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11884506

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ISBN:	9781108429634 1108429637
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	More Auspicious Shores chronicles the migration of Afro-Barbadians to Liberia. In 1865, 346 Afro-Barbadians fled a failed post-emancipation Caribbean for the independent black republic of Liberia. They saw Liberia as a means of achieving their post-emancipation goals and promoting a pan-Africanist agenda while simultaneously fulfilling their 'civilizing' and 'Christianizing' duties. Through a close examination of the Afro-Barbadians, Caree A. Banton provides a transatlantic approach to understanding the political and sociocultural consequences of their migration and settlement in Africa. Banton reveals how, as former British subjects, Afro-Barbadians navigated an inherent tension between ideas of pan-Africanism and colonial superiority. Upon their arrival in Liberia, an English imperial identity distinguished the Barbadians from African Americans and secured them privileges in the Republic's hierarchy above the other group. By fracturing assumptions of a homogeneous black identity, Banton ultimately demonstrates how Afro-Barbadian settlement in Liberia influenced ideas of blackness in the Atlantic World.

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Call Number:	DT643 .B36 2019
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