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

Author/Contributor(s):	Kazanjian, David
Publisher:	Duke University Press
Date:	06/10/2016
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

In The Brink of Freedom David Kazanjian revises dominant understandings of nineteenth-century conceptions of freedom by examining the letters of black settler colonists in Liberia and the letters and literature of Mayan rebels and their Creole antagonists in Yucatán, showing how they disrupted liberal formations of freedom.