BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250817T031705EDT-1164E8WxjV@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20250817T071705Z DESCRIPTION:Abstract\n\n\n\nThe effort to create a colony of African Americ ans on the west\ncoast of Africa was one of the most celebrated and influe ntial\nmovements in the United States during the first half of the 19th\nc entury. While historians have primarily understood the resulting\ncolony o f Liberia within the framework of domestic anti-slavery\npolitics\, it can also be understood as one of the United States’\nfirst attempts to engine er democracy abroad\, which some proponents\nimagined might lead to a “Uni ted States of Africa.”  By\nproposing that persons of African descent coul d eventually become\nself-governing subjects\, the liberal framework behin d colonization\noffered the possibility of black citizenship rights\, but only\nwithin a racially homogenous nation-state. This talk sheds light on \nthe often-overlooked moment in 1847 when Liberia declared itself an\nind ependent republic by investigating the divergent meanings given\nto the ev ent by Liberian settlers who participated in it and the\nblack and white a udiences in the United States who observed it from\nafar.  Through an exam ination of the politics of Liberian\nindependence\, this talk will illustr ate how the African\ncolonization movement allowed many Americans to envis ion a white\nU.S. nation that could extend its global power by projecting its\nown vision of racial nationhood abroad.\nAbout the Speaker\n\n\n\nBra ndon Mills is a lecturer in the Department of History and\nClassical Studi es at 9I  University and received his PhD\nfrom the University of Illi nois at Urbana-Champaign.  He is\nworking on a book that explores the role of the African\ncolonization movement in the United States’ emerging iden tity as\nboth a racialized democracy and an exporter of political liberty \nthroughout the world.\n DTSTART:20111128T203000Z DTEND:20111128T223000Z LOCATION:Rutherford Physics Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 2T8\, 3600 rue University SUMMARY:“The United States of Africa”: Liberian Independence and the Contes ted Meaning of a Black Republic URL:/channels/event/%E2%80%9C-united-states-africa%E2% 80%9D-liberian-independence-and-contested-meaning-black-republic-212224 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR