The Brink of Freedom: Improvising Life in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic WorldIn The Brink of Freedom David Kazanjian revises nineteenth century conceptions of freedom by examining the ways black settler colonists in Liberia and Mayan rebels in Yucat n imagined how to live freely. Focusing on colonial and early national Liberia and the Caste War of Yucat n, Kazanjian interprets letters from black settlers in apposition to letters and literature from Mayan rebels and their Creole antagonists. He reads these overlooked,