Alabama in Africa

Angela Elisabeth Zimmerman

Princeton University Press, 2012

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In 1901, the Tuskegee Institute, founded by Booker T. Washington, sent an expedition to the German colony of Togo in West Africa, with the purpose of transforming the region into a cotton economy similar to that of the post-Reconstruction American South. Alabama in Africa explores the politics of labor, sexuality, and race behind this endeavor, and

ISBN-13
9780691155869
ISBN-10
0691155860
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
2012
Publication date
2012-05-27
Pages
416
Dimensions
230x157x25
Weight
614