Slavery and the peculiar solution : a history of the American Colonization Society /

Slavery and the peculiar solution : a history of the American Colonization Society /

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Author / Creator:	Burin, Eric.
Imprint:	Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, ©2005.
Description:	1 online resource (xiv, 223 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	Southern dissent Southern dissent.
Subject:	American Colonization Society. American Colonization Society. Slaves -- Emancipation -- Southern States. African Americans -- Colonization -- Africa, West. African Americans -- Colonization -- Liberia. African Americans -- Colonization. Slaves -- Emancipation. Liberia -- History -- To 1847. West Africa. Liberia. Southern States. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11099060

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ISBN:	9780813037028 0813037026 0813028418 9780813028415 9780813032733
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-214) and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	"From the early 1700s through the late 1800s, many whites advocated removing blacks from America. The American Colonization Society (ACS) epitomized this desire to deport black people. Founded in 1816, the ACS championed the repatriation of black Americans to Liberia in West Africa. Supported by James Madison, James Monroe, Henry Clay, and other notables, the ACS sent thousands of black emigrants to Liberia. In examining the ACS's activities in America and Africa, Eric Burin assesses the organization's impact on slavery and race relations." "Burin focuses on ACS manumissions - that is, instances wherein slaves were freed on the condition that they go to Liberia. In doing so, he provides the first account of the ACS that covers the entire South throughout the antebellum era. He investigates everyone involved in the society's affairs, from the emancipators and freedpersons at the center to the colonization agents, free blacks, southern jurists, newspaper editors, neighboring whites, proslavery ideologues, northern colonizationists, and abolitionists on the periphery. In mixing a panoramic view of ACS operations with close-ups on individual participants, Burin presents a unique, bifocal perspective on the ACS."--Jacket.
Other form:	Print version: Burin, Eric. Slavery and the peculiar solution. Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, ©2005 0813028418

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Summary:	Adds significantly to our understanding of the world view of slaveholding colonizationists, of their negotiations with prospectively freed people, and of their struggle with proslavery critics of colonization.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (xiv, 223 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-214) and index.
ISBN:	9780813037028 0813037026 0813028418 9780813028415 9780813032733