Colonizing the Black Atlantic: The African Colonization Movements in Postwar Rhode Island and Nova Scotia
2006; Frank Cass & Co.; Volume: 27; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/01440390601014518
ISSN1743-9523
Autores Tópico(s)American History and Culture
ResumoThis essay examines the African colonization movements that emerged in Rhode Island and Nova Scotia to demonstrate the complex ways the American Revolution affected the Black Atlantic. In particular it examines how the repatriation movement in Rhode Island reflects the ways Atlantic creoles and their syncretic cultural and political outlook shaped their vision of African colonization. The essay also explores the political and economic goals of blacks who left Nova Scotia for Sierra Leone, arguing that their idea of independence was rooted in a pre-modern view of competency that challenged the larger liberal impulse that defined the broader Anglo-American Atlantic world. Collectively, the African colonization movements in Rhode Island and Nova Scotia represent the apotheosis of the cultural and social exchange that defined the Black Atlantic in the pre-Revolutionary period.
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