Title The brink of freedom : improvising life in the nineteenth-century Atlantic world / David Kazanjian

Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2016 ©20 ©2016

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Description 1 online resource (329 pages) : illustrations Contents Atlantic speculations, quotidian globalities -- Liberia -- It all most cost us death seeking life? Recursive returns and unsettled nativities -- Suffering gain and it remain? The speculative freedom of early Liberia -- Yucatán -- En sus futuros destinos? Casta capitalism -- Por eso peleamos? Recasting libertad -- Coda -- Archives for the future Summary In The Brink of Freedom David Kazanjian revises dominant understandings of nineteenth-century conceptions of freedom by examining the letters of black settler colonists in Liberia and the letters and literature of Mayan rebels and their Creole antagonists in Yucatán, showing how they disrupted liberal formations of freedom Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-314) and index Notes English Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2021. HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject African Americans -- Colonization -- Liberia -- History -- 19th century Mayas -- Mexico -- Yucatán (State) -- History -- 19th century HISTORY -- Africa -- West. HISTORY -- Africa -- General. African Americans -- Colonization Mayas Freiheit Motiv Kolonisation Schwarze Sklave Umsiedlung Slaves -- Emancipation -- United States. Freedom in literature. African Americans -- Colonization -- Liberia -- History -- 19th century. Mayas -- Mexico -- Yucatán (State) -- History -- 19th century. SUBJECT Liberia -- History -- 20th century Yucatán (Mexico : State) -- History -- 19th century Subject Liberia Mexico -- Yucatán (State) Liberia Liberia -- History -- 19th century. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2015044447 ISBN 9780822374107 0822374102

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