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

• Autore: Burin Eric
• Pubblicazione: Gainesville, : University Press of Florida, 2005
• Edizione: First paperback edition, 2008.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (241 p.)
• Disciplina: 326/.0973/09034
• Soggetto topico: Enslaved persons - Emancipation - Southern States; African Americans - Colonization - Africa, West; African Americans - Colonization - Liberia
• Soggetto geografico: Liberia History To 1847
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Slavery and the peculiar solution
• ISBN: 0-8130-3702-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910781331103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Southern dissent.