New Directions in the Study of African American Recolonization

New Directions in the Study of African American Recolonization

by Beverly Tomek and Matthew J. Hetrick
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 23/09/2022

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This volume closely examines the movement to resettle black Americans in Africa, an effort led by the American Colonization Society during the nineteenth century and a heavily debated part of American history. Some believe it was inspired by antislavery principles, but others think it was a proslavery reaction against the presence of free Black people in society.


Moving beyond this simplistic debate, contributors link the movement to other historical developments of the time, revealing a complex web of different schemes, ideologies, and activities behind the relocation of African Americans to Liberia. They explain what colonization, emigration, immigration, abolition, and emancipation meant within nuanced nineteenth-century contexts, looking through many lenses to more accurately reflect the past.


Contributors: Eric Burin | Andrew Diemer | David F. Ericson | Bronwen Everill | Nicholas Guyatt | Debra Newman Ham | Matthew J. Hetrick | Gale Kenny | Phillip W. Magness | Brandon Mills | Robert Murray | Sebastian N. Page | Daniel Preston | Beverly Tomek | Andrew N. Wegmann | Ben Wright | Nicholas P. Wood A volume in the series Southern Dissent, edited by Stanley Harrold and Randall M. Miller

ISBN:
9780813072760
9780813072760
Category:
History of the Americas
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
23-09-2022
Language:
English
Publisher:
University Press of Florida

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