Tropical Freedom: Climate, Settler Colonialism, and Black Exclusion in the Age of Emancipation

Author/Contributor(s):	Asaka, Ikuko
Publisher:	Duke University Press
Date:	11/03/2017
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Ikuko Asaka examines emancipation's intersection with settler colonialism in North America, showing how emancipation efforts in the United States and present-day Canada were accompanied by attempts to relocate freed blacks to tropical regions, thereby conceiving freedom as a racially segregated condition based upon geography and climate.