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The Brink of Freedom: Improvising Life in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World
Duke University Press
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ISBN electronic:
978-0-8223-7410-7
Publication date:
2016
Book Chapter
Coda: Archives for the Future
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Published:May 2016
The Coda reviews how nineteenth-century black settlers in Liberia and Maya rebels in Yucatán left documents that do not only tell us who-did-what-where-when-and-why about the colonization of Liberia and the Caste War but also reflect speculatively on the meaning of freedom during that conjuncture. It argues that those reflections are often equivocal in that they make meaning in multiple directions at once. While such equivocation can appear undecided, uncertain, ambiguous—in other words, as a failure to think and act—the coda claims that they rather offer a freedom from structures of formal equality like national citizenship that speaks to and beyond...
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