Peculiar Rhetoric : Slavery, Freedom, and the African Colonization Movement /

"The African colonization movement occupies a troubling rhetorical territory in the struggle for racial equality in the United States. For white colonizationists, the movement seemed positioned as a welcome compromise between slavery and abolition. For free blacks, colonization offered the hope...

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Main Author: Stillion Southard, Bjorn F. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2019]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Sheridan, Louis.
Lincoln, Abraham, > 1809-1865.
Clay, Henry, > 1777-1852.
Caldwell, Elias Boudinot, > 1776-1825.
Teage, Hilary > Political and social views.
Sheridan, Louis > Political and social views.
Caldwell, Elias Boudinot, > 1776-1825 > Political and social views.
Clay, Henry, > 1777-1852 > Political and social views.
Lincoln, Abraham, > 1809-1865 > Political and social views.
American Colonization Society.
American Colonization Society > History > 19th century.
Slavery.
Rhetoric > Political aspects.
Political and social views.
Free Black people.
African Americans > Colonization.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
Discours politique > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Esclavage > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Personnes noires affranchies > Amerique > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Noirs americains > Colonisation > Liberia > 19e siecle.
Rhetoric > Political aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
Slavery > United States > History > 19th century.
Free Black people > America > History > 19th century.
African Americans > Colonization > Liberia > 19th century.
United States.
Liberia.
America.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1: Peculiar argumentation: Henry Clay, Elias B. Caldwell, and the establishment of colonization's deliberative discourse
  • Chapter 2: Peculiar voice: the counter memorial of the free people of colour of the District of Columbia and the unsettling of colonization's deliberative discourse
  • Chapter 3: Peculiar planning: Louis Sheridan and the negotiation of diasporic and deliberative discourse
  • Chapter 4: Peculiar obligations: Hilary Teage and the constitution of civic identity in Liberia
  • Chapter 5: Peculiar proposal: Abraham Lincoln and the public policy advocacy for colonization
  • Chapter 6: Conclusion: middle passages, emigration, and peculiar legacies.

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