Atlantic Passages: Race, Mobility, and Liberian Colonization
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Established by the American Colonization Society in the early nineteenth century as a settlement for free people of color, the West African colony of Liberia is usually seen as an endpoint in the journeys of those who traveled there. In Atlantic Passages, Robert Murray reveals that many Liberian settlers did not remain in Africa but returned repeatedly to the United States, and he explores the ways this movement shaped the construction of race in the Atlantic world.
Tracing the transatlantic crossings of Americo-Liberians between 1820 and 1857, in addition to delving into their experiences on both sides of the ocean, Murray discusses how the African neighbors and inhabitants of Liberia recognized significant cultural differences in the newly arrived African Americans and racially categorized them as “whites.” He examines the implications of being perceived as simultaneously white and black, arguing that these settlers acquired an exotic, foreign identity that escaped associations with primitivism and enabled them to claim previously inaccessible privileges and honors in America.
Highlighting examples of the ways in which blackness and whiteness have always been contested ideas, as well as how understandings of race can be shaped by geography and cartography, Murray offers many insights into what it meant to be black and white in the space between Africa and America.
Review
?Makes a fresh and compelling intervention and provides a new theoretical framing for thinking about Liberia?s uncomfortable place in the history of American expansion.??Bronwen Everill, author of Abolition and Empire in Sierra Leone and Liberia
?In this original and thought-provoking study, Murray forces a reconsideration of the very ideas of race and racial identity in the nineteenth-century Atlantic world.??Matthew J. Clavin, author of Aiming for Pensacola: Fugitive Slaves on the Atlantic and Southern Frontiers
Review
“Makes a fresh and compelling intervention and provides a new theoretical framing for thinking about Liberia’s uncomfortable place in the history of American expansion.”―Bronwen Everill, author of Abolition and Empire in Sierra Leone and Liberia
“In this original and thought-provoking study, Murray forces a reconsideration of the very ideas of race and racial identity in the nineteenth-century Atlantic world.”―Matthew J. Clavin, author of Aiming for Pensacola: Fugitive Slaves on the Atlantic and Southern Frontiers
About the Author
Robert Murray is assistant professor of history and chair of the Humanities Department at Mercy College in Dobbs Ferry, New York.
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