List of maps and figures; Preface; List of abbreviations; Introduction: 'who is this man and from whence comes he to rule?'; Part I. Caribbean Emancipation: 1. Not free indeed; 2. African civilization and the West Indian avant-garde; 3. The Liberian president visits Barbados to trade visions of freedom; Part II. The Middle Passage: 4. Middle passage baggage; Part III. African Liberation: 5. Barbadians arrival and social integration in Liberia; 6. Making citizenship and blackness in Liberia; 7. A changing of the guards: Arthur Barclay and Barbadian Liberia political leadership; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.
Offers a thorough examination of Afro-Barbadian migration to Liberia during the mid- to late nineteenth century.
Caree A. Banton is Assistant Professor of Afro-Caribbean History at the University of Arkansas.
'Caree A. Banton's book fills a significant gap in the story of
Liberia's creation and its place in the larger Afro-Atlantic world.
She skillfully renders the complex identities that Barbadians
crafted at home and in Africa, while being mindful of their often
conflicted notions of race, civilization, and empire.' Claude
A. Clegg, III, Lyle V. Jones Distinguished Professor, University of
North Carolina, Chapel Hill
'This book is a sustained, often stimulating, commentary on
blackness and notions of social class that traverses two widely
differing terrains, from post-slavery in Barbados to the political
and social construction of the Liberian state. While one may not
fully share the author's assertions about the 'failure' of
emancipation in Barbados or about the class position that the
migrant Barbadians had occupied in Barbadian society, or even about
the content of the ideological baggage that they took to Liberia,
one cannot help but be impressed by the verve and scholarly
flourish with which the author states her case.' Woodville
Marshall, University of the West Indies, Barbados
'In this highly original, well-researched monograph, Banton
emphasizes the singular place of Barbadian migrants in Liberia's
history.' R. M. Delson, Choice
'…the book is an important contribution to emancipation-era history
in the Caribbean and Africa, and successfully presents the story of
these Barbadian migrants as a vital chapter in the long formation
of the Afro-Atlantic world.' Melanie J. Newton, New West Indian
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