Reviews

Tropical Freedom: Climate, Settler Colonialism, and Black Exclusion in the Age of Emancipation by Ikuko Asaka

mattrohn's review against another edition

5.0

Excellent history of the climactic racism that informed much abolitionist thinking and heavily linked abolitionism to the deportation of emancipated slaves in the Anglo Atlantic world. The way in which this combines histories of slavery, settler colonialism, and extractive plantation colonies is incredibly informative and a good model for shaping future historical work

atsundarsingh's review

4.0

This book made me so aware of the entanglement of US and Canadian racial logics and language around black freedom and citizenship. More, it also gave me insight into the way that racial logics around slavery propped up other types of oppression. Asaka gives great examples of the way that possible exclusion from the settler colonial project helped to incorporate free black individuals into that project, ultimately regulating their lives in yet another way even after emancipation.