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The Last Reconstruction: Slavery, Emancipation, and Empire in the Black Pacific

出版	ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2018
ISBN	04380882129780438088214
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Bri7wgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋This dissertation analyzes the end of American slavery in conjunction with the birth of American overseas empire. As the first book-length project to examine the long forgotten state-sponsored plan to colonize over five million African Americans to Hawai'i and the Philippines, this dissertation takes both a top-down and a bottom-up approach to its topic. What emerges is a transnational history of Emancipation and Reconstruction. Using archival sources in multiple languages from the United States, Hawai'i, and the Philippines this project blends intellectual, cultural, political, and economic history to engage in number of ongoing debates in African American Studies and American history. It narrates both ideas about black colonization to the Pacific as well as the lives of actual black people who made that journey in search of a better life. By piecing together the stories of black farmers, teachers, chefs, activists, and artists this project paints a vivid picture of black life in the Pacific and how it intersected with Asian and Polynesian anticolonial struggles.