Description
Book SynopsisTravel and the Pan African Imagination explores the African Atlantic world as a productive theater or space where modernity, racialized dominance, and racialized resistance took form. The book stresses the importance of placing three Atlantic figuresthe Charleston, South Carolina-based armed resistance leader Denmark Vesey; the West African emigration advocate Edward Wilmot Blyden, and the Christian missionary and teacher in Liberia as well as the United States, Alexander Crummellwithin an Atlantic context and as African world community figures between the late-eighteenth and early-twentieth centuries. The book also examines the religious origins of Black Power ideology and modern Pan Africanism as products of the intense dialogue within the African world community about concepts of modernity, progress, and civilization. Tracy Keith Flemming identifies how travel and social mobility led to the generation of an ever more complex and dynamic Atlantic world and of a fluid and adaptive
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Denmark Vesey, Armed Resistance, and the Emergence of Pan Africanism
Chapter 2: Explorations of Christianity and Islam: Edward Wilmot Blyden’s Travels in Africa and the Middle East
Chapter 3: “We need some African power”: Edward Wilmot Blyden and The Negro, or The Conservative Origins of Black Power Ideology
Chapter 4: Anglo-Africans and Negro-Saxons: Writing the History of African Nationalism via Alexander Crummell
Conclusion: Africology and the New Millennium
