New Directions in the Study of African American Recolonization
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Abraham Lincoln
Africa
African American
African Missionary Work
African Resettlement
American Colonization Society
Beverly Tomek
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Colonization
Emancipation
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James Monroe
Liberia
Lydia Sigourney
Matthew Hetrick
Paul Cuffe
Recolonization
Sierra Leone
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- ISBN 9780813080109
- Weight: 228g
- Dimensions: 235 x 156mm
- Publication Date: 18 Oct 2022
- Publisher: University Press of Florida
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 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
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.
Matthew J. Hetrick is a history teacher at The Bryn Mawr School.
