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

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

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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.