Fugitive Modernities: Kisama and the Politics of Freedom

by Jessica A. Krug

Book Overview

During the early seventeenth century, Kisama emerged in West Central Africa (present-day Angola) as communities and an identity for those fleeing expanding states and the violence of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. The fugitives mounted effective resistance to European colonialism despite--or because of--the absence of centralized authority or a common language. In Fugitive Modernities Jessica A. Krug offers a continent- and century-spanning...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478001542
• ISBN13: 9781478001546
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary