New Directions in the Study of African American Recolonization

Sprache: Englisch.
gebunden , 368 Seiten
ISBN 0813054249
EAN 9780813054247
Veröffentlicht Juli 2017
Verlag/Hersteller University Press of Florida
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Beschreibung

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 blacks 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.

Portrait

Beverly C. Tomek, associate provost for
curriculum and student achievement and associate professor of history at the
University of Houston-Victoria, is the author of Colonization and Its Discontents: Emancipation, Emigration, and
Antislavery in Antebellum Pennsylvania. Matthew J. Hetrick is a history teacher at The Bryn Mawr School.

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