Tropical Freedom: Climate, Settler Colonialism, and Black Exclusion in the Age of Emancipation University of iowa Press and the United States—to realistically

and the United States—to realistically assess the dilemma of being black in the world

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Tropical Freedom: Climate, Settler Colonialism, and Black Exclusion in the Age of Emancipation University of iowa Press and the United States—to realisticallyIn Tropical Freedom Ikuko Asaka engages in a hemispheric examination of the intersection of emancipation and settler colonialism in North America. Asaka shows how from the late eighteenth century through Reconstruction, emancipation efforts in the United States and present day Canada were accompanied by attempts to relocate freed blacks to tropical regions, as black bodies were deemed to be more physiologically compatible with tropical climates. This