More Auspicious Shores
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More Auspicious Shores

Barbadian Migration to Liberia, Blackness, and the Making of an African Republic

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More Auspicious Shores

Barbadian Migration to Liberia, Blackness, and the Making of an African Republic

About this book

More Auspicious Shoreschronicles 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 andpromoting 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, anEnglish 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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title page
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of Figures
  8. Preface
  9. List of Abbreviations
  10. Introduction: “Who Is This Man and from Whence Comes He to Rule?”
  11. Part I Caribbean Emancipation
  12. Part II The Middle Passage
  13. Part III African Liberation
  14. Epilogue: British West Indians in Liberia from Edward Blyden to Marcus Garvey
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index