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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457022203321

Autore

Burin Eric

Titolo

Slavery and the peculiar solution [[electronic resource] ] : a history of the American Colonization Society / / Eric Burin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Gainesville, : University Press of Florida, 2005

ISBN

0-8130-3702-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Collana

Southern dissent

Disciplina

326/.0973/09034

Soggetti

Slaves - Emancipation - Southern States

African Americans - Colonization - Africa, West

African Americans - Colonization - Liberia

Electronic books.

Liberia History To 1847

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.