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Autore: | Burin Eric |
Titolo: | Slavery and the peculiar solution : a history of the American Colonization Society / / Eric Burin |
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.: | 9910828237703321 |
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