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Colonization and its discontents : emancipation, emigration, and antislavery in antebellum Pennsylvania /
Pennsylvania contained the largest concentration of early America's abolitionist leaders and organizations, making it a necessary and illustrative stage from which to understand how national conversations about the place of free blacks in early America originated and evolved, and, importantly,...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University Press,
2010.
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| Series: | Early American places.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 1. "Many negroes in these parts may prove prejudissial several wayes to us and our posteraty": the crucial elements of exclusion and social control in Pennsylvania's early antislavery movement
- 2. "A certain simple grandeur ... which awakens the benevolent heart": the American Colonization Society's effective marketing in Pennsylvania
- 3. "Calculated to remove the evils, and increase the happiness of society": Mathew Carey and the political and economic side of African colonization
- 4. "We here mean literally what we say": Elliott Cresson and the Pennsylvania Colonization Society's humanitarian agenda
- 5. "They will never become a people until they come out from amongst the white people": James Forten and African American ambivalence to African colonization
- 6. "A thorough abolitionist could not be such without being a colonizationist": Benjamin Coates and black uplift in the United States and Africa
- 7. "Our elevation must be the result of self-efforts, and work of our own hands": Martin R. Delany and the role of self-help and emigration in black uplift
- 8. "Maybe the devil has got to come out of these people before we will have peace": assessing the successes and failures of Pennsylvania's competing antislavery agendas.