Brandon Mills
Biographic Data
| ID | 5530515 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brandon Mills |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brandon |
| FAMILY NAME | Mills |
| SIGNATURE | MILLS B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Colorado Denver |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3302-5330 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The World Colonization Made
Focusing on the creation of the African Colonization Society (ACS) in the nineteenth century, The World Colonization Made chronicles the rise and fall of the colonization movement—an ideology that enabled Americans to envision a world of self-governing republics that harmonized with the racialized political institutions at home.
B jørn F. S tillion S outhard . Peculiar Rhetoric
As colonies created by Britain and the United States for formerly enslaved peoples in West Africa, Sierra Leone and Liberia have always had deeply intertwined histories. Two recent books, Bjørn F. Stillion Southard’s Peculiar Rhetoric: Slavery, Freedom, and the African Colonization Movement and Richard Peter Anderson’s Abolition in Sierra Leone: Re-Building Lives and Identities in Nineteenth-Century West Africa approach these histories from very …
Atlantic Bonds
In recent decades, historians have deepened our understanding of the Black Atlantic world by exploring the intimate stories of African Americans who left the United States for Africa. While much of this scholarship has fixated on how these migrations shaped African American identity in the United States, Lisa Lindsay’s Atlantic Bonds: A Nineteenth-Century Odyssey from America to Africa focuses more attention on the African side of this story and,…
Liberian Dreams
“The United States of Africa”
Historians have primarily examined the African colonization movement within the context of domestic anti-slavery politics; however, because colonizationists often promoted Liberia as a nascent “United States of Africa,” it can also be understood as one of the United States’ first attempts to engineer republicanism abroad. This article examines the symbolic realization of this republican ideal by investigating the often-overlooked moment in 1847 w…
“The United States of Africa”
Historians have primarily examined the African colonization movement within the context of domestic anti-slavery politics; however, because colonizationists often promoted Liberia as a nascent “United States of Africa,” it can also be understood as one of the United States’ first attempts to engineer republicanism abroad. This article examines the symbolic realization of this republican ideal by investigating the often-overlooked moment in 1847 w…
Liberian Dreams
Atlantic Bonds
In recent decades, historians have deepened our understanding of the Black Atlantic world by exploring the intimate stories of African Americans who left the United States for Africa. While much of this scholarship has fixated on how these migrations shaped African American identity in the United States, Lisa Lindsay’s Atlantic Bonds: A Nineteenth-Century Odyssey from America to Africa focuses more attention on the African side of this story and,…
The World Colonization Made
Focusing on the creation of the African Colonization Society (ACS) in the nineteenth century, The World Colonization Made chronicles the rise and fall of the colonization movement—an ideology that enabled Americans to envision a world of self-governing republics that harmonized with the racialized political institutions at home.
B jørn F. S tillion S outhard . Peculiar Rhetoric
As colonies created by Britain and the United States for formerly enslaved peoples in West Africa, Sierra Leone and Liberia have always had deeply intertwined histories. Two recent books, Bjørn F. Stillion Southard’s Peculiar Rhetoric: Slavery, Freedom, and the African Colonization Movement and Richard Peter Anderson’s Abolition in Sierra Leone: Re-Building Lives and Identities in Nineteenth-Century West Africa approach these histories from very …
Colonialism, slavery, and trade (5 works) · History (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (2 works) · Colonialism (2 works) · Colonization (2 works) · Ethnology (2 works)