Abstract
The Black Urban Atlantic in the Age of the Slave Trade, by Jorge Canizares-Esguerra et al. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016 The Brink of Freedom; Improvising life in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World , by David Kazanjian. Duke University Press, 2016
Highlights
David Kazanjian thought he had an original idea. He found two sets of correspondence originating in entirely different parts of the Atlantic world, both featuring letters from the year 1847, authored by protagonists of movements that have been considered failures: the colonization movement of Liberia by former North American slaves and Yucatán’s Caste War
It is puzzling to read that Liberia’s settlers supposedly sought freedom by returning to the United States (p. 76) or that they reworked the relationship between master and slave (p. 129)
In contrast with Kazanjian’s musings, the volume on The Black Urban Atlantic in the Age of the Slave Trade is a work of scholarship
Summary
David Kazanjian thought he had an original idea. He found two sets of correspondence originating in entirely different parts of the Atlantic world, both featuring letters from the year 1847, authored by protagonists of movements that have been considered failures: the colonization movement of Liberia by former North American slaves and Yucatán’s Caste War. – The Brink of Freedom; Improvising life in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World, by David Kazanjian. Duke University Press, 2016 & The Black Urban Atlantic in the Age of the Slave Trade by Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra et al University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016
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