New Directions in the Study of African American Recolonization
This volume closely examines the movement to resettle black Americans in Africa, an effort led by the American Colonization Society during the nineteenth century and a heavily debated part of American history.
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Gainesville
University Press of Florida
2017
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| Edice: | Southern Dissent |
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| ISBN: | 9780813080109, 081308010X |
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- Cover -- New Directions in the Study of African American Recolonization -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction: The Past, Present, and Future of Colonization Studies -- PART I. RECONSIDERING THE MISSIONARY DIMENSIONS OF COLONIZATION -- 1. Race, Sympathy, and Missionary Sensibility in the New England Colonization Movement -- 2. "The Heathen Are Demanding the Gospel": Conversion, Redemption, and African Colonization -- 3. "He Be God Who Made Dis Man": Christianity and Conversion in Nineteenth-Century Liberia -- 4. "Teaching Them to Observe All Things": African American Women, the Great Commission, and Liberia in the Nineteenth Century -- PART II. RECONSIDERING THE POLITICAL AND DIPLOMATIC DIMENSIONS OF COLONIZATION -- 5. The American Colonization Society's Not-So-Private Colonization Project -- 6. James Monroe and the Practicalities of Emancipation and Colonization -- 7. The Missouri Crisis and the "Changed Object" of the American Colonization Society -- 8. Situating African Colonization within the History of U.S. Expansion -- 9. Experiments in Colonial Citizenship in Sierra Leone and Liberia -- 10. The American Colonization Society and the Civil War -- PART III. REDIRECTING THE FIELD AND OFFERING NEW ANSWERS TO OLD QUESTIONS -- 11. The Cape Mesurado Contract: A Reconsideration -- 12. "A Desire to Better Their Condition": European Immigration, African Colonization, and the Lure of Consensual Emancipation -- 13. The End of Emancipation Street: "Civilization," Race, and Cartography in Colonial Liberia -- 14. Rewriting Their Own History -- or, The Many Paul Cuffes -- 15. The Changing Legacy of Civil War Colonization -- 16. Rethinking Colonization in the Early United States -- List of Contributors -- Index