Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 744 g
Reihe: Southern Dissent
Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 744 g
Reihe: Southern Dissent
ISBN: 978-0-8130-5424-7
Verlag: University Press of Florida
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.
