The Brink of Freedom: Improvising Life in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World

by David Kazanjian

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In The Brink of Freedom David Kazanjian revises nineteenth-century conceptions of freedom by examining the ways black settler colonists in Liberia and Mayan rebels in Yucatán imagined how to live freely. Focusing on colonial and early national Liberia and the Caste War of Yucatán, Kazanjian interprets letters from black settlers in apposition to letters and literature from Mayan rebels and their Creole antagonists. He reads these overlooked, multilingual...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0822361701

ISBN13:9780822361701

Release Date:June 2016

Publisher:Duke University Press

Length:336 Pages

Weight:1.05 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"

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