UID:
edocfu_9959236519302883
Format:
1 online resource (241 p.)
Edition:
First paperback edition, 2008.
ISBN:
0-8130-3702-6
Series Statement:
Southern dissent
Content:
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.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Front Cover; Table of Contents vii; Foreword ix; Acknowledgments xiii; Introduction: American Colonization Society Manumissions and Slavery 1; 1. An Overview of the African Colonization Movement 6; 2. ACS Manumitters: Their Ideology and Intentions 34; 3. Slaves: Negotiating for Freedom 57; 4. The Pennsylvania Colonization Societyas a Facilitator of Manumission 79; 5. White Southerners' Responsesto ACS Manumissions 100; 6. ACS Manumissions and the Law 121; 7. Liberia: Freedpersons' Experiences in Africa 141; Conclusion 160; Tables 169; Notes 175; Bibliography 201; Index 215
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8130-3273-3
Language:
English
