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Slavery and the Peculiar Solution: A History of the American Colonization Society

Slavery and the Peculiar Solution: A History of the American Colonization Society

Burin, Eric

Paperback

Series: Southern Dissent

19th Century United States HistoryBlack American StudiesGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 0813032733
ISBN13: 9780813032733
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: Apr 20 2008
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.73 Width: 6.55 Depth: 8.88
Language: English
Every historian working on colonization will want to read and engage this provocative history of the experience of African colonization for the manumitted, the manumitters, and their proslavery critics.--American Historical Review One of the most insightful treatments of colonization in years.--Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography Balanced, accessible, and thorough. Each of Burin's chapters explores the ACS from a specific perspective: ACS members who manumitted enslaved workers specifically to go to Liberia, the enslaved themselves, northern fundraisers, white southerners, legal authorities, and finally, the freedpeople in Liberia.--Journal of African American History Presents a vivid portrait of the organization as a conduit through which several thousand African Americans passed from American slavery to African freedom.--Journal of American History Conveys the image of chattel slavery not as a monolithic structure controlling all masters and slaves everywhere but as a constantly changing entity throbbing with painful issues of personal and private rights in conflict with predominant opinions about social cohesion and custom. . . . The result is a refreshingly complex picture of American slavery.--History A meticulously researched biography of one of the oft-overlooked cul-de-sacs in American history.--Virginia Quarterly Review

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