New Directions in the Study of African American Recolonization

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-0-8130-8010-9
Verlag: University Press of Florida

Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 567 g

Reihe: Southern Dissent

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.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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tomek, Beverly

Hetrick, Matthew J

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Beverly C. Tomek, associate chair of humanities 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.