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 9780813054247
  • Weight: 680g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
  • Publication Date: 25 Jul 2017
  • Publisher: University Press of Florida
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Hardback
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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.