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Date de parution

03 février 2004

Nombre de lectures

EAN13

9780822385295

Langue

English

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Unprecedented in scope and detail, Brothers and Strangers is a vivid history of how the mythic Africa of the black American imagination ran into the realities of Africa the place. In the 1920s, Marcus Garvey-convinced that freedom from oppression was not possible for blacks in the Americas-led the last great African American emigrationist movement. His U.S.-based Universal Negro Improvement Association worked with the Liberian government to create a homeland for African Americans. Ibrahim Sundiata explores the paradox at the core of this project: Liberia, the chosen destination, was itself racked by class and ethnic divisions and-like other nations in colonial Africa-marred by labor abuse.In an account based on extensive archival research, including work in the Liberian National Archives, Sundiata explains how Garvey's plan collapsed when faced with opposition from the Liberian elite, opposition that belied his vision of a unified Black World. In 1930 the League of Nations investigated labor conditions and, damningly, the United States, land of lynching and Jim Crow, accused Liberia of promoting "conditions analogous to slavery." Subsequently various plans were put forward for a League Mandate or an American administration to put down slavery and "modernize" the country. Threatened with a loss of its independence, the Liberian government turned to its "brothers beyond the sea" for support. A varied group of white and black anti-imperialists, among them W. E. B. Du Bois, took up the country's cause. In revealing the struggle of conscience that bedeviled many in the black world in the past, Sundiata casts light on a human rights predicament which, he points out, continues in twenty-first-century African nations as disparate as Sudan, Mauritania, and the Ivory Coast.

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Publié par

Duke University Press

Date de parution

03 février 2004

EAN13

9780822385295

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

1 Mo

Brothers and Strangers

BROTHERS AND STRANGERS

Black Zion,

Black Slavery,

1914–1940

Ibrahim Sundiata

d u k e u n i v e r s i t y p r e s s

Durham and London

2003

∫2003 Duke University Press

Printed in the United States of

Americaonacid-freepaper$

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Typeset in Carter & Cone Galliard

with Jaeger Daily News display

by Keystone Typesetting, Inc.

Library of Congress Cataloging-

in-Publication Data

Sundiata, Ibrahim K.

Brothers and strangers : Black Zion,

Black slavery, 1914–1940 /

Ibrahim Sundiata.

p.cm.

Includes bibliographical references

(p. ) and index.

isbn0-8223-3233-7 (cloth : alk. paper)

isbn0-8223-3247-7 (pbk. : alk. paper)

1.BacktoAfricamovement.2.African

Americans—Colonization—Liberia.

3.AfricanAmericans—Colonization—

Africa. 4. Liberia—History—1847–1944.

5. Garvey, Marcus, 1887–1940. I. Title.

dt634.s86 2003

966.62%00496073—dc22

2003016058

f o r

m y m o t h e r

inmemoriam

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1Confronting the Motherland

2The Black Zion

3Abuse 79

4Investigation of an Investigation

5Dollar Diplomacy

140

6A New Deal for Liberia

170

7Enterprise in Black and White

8The Literary Mirror

229

9The ‘‘Native Problem’’

10Fascism and New Zions

252

286

211

11Postscript: Africa and Human Rights

Notes

341

Select Bibliography

Index

429

407

325

Contents f

W. E. B. Du Bois 22

Marcus Garvey 22

List of Illustrations f

Second group of o≈cials and ﬁrst group of experts

sent to Liberia, 1921 33

Group ofu n iacommissioners with local Liberian

committee in Monrovia, 1924 34

C. D. B. King 38

Members of the Liberian Frontier Force 86

Harvey Firestone Sr. 99

Nnamdi Azikiwe 103

Dorothy Detzer 176

Lester Walton 205

Ralph Johnson Bunche 319

President Edwin Barclay, President of the Republic

of Liberia, 1943 329

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