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Unlikely Partners: Collaboration Between Colonizationists and Radical Abolitionists in Washington County, Pennsylvania, during the 1830s

Abstract

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In the scholarly literature, colonizationists and radical abolitionists are portrayed as composing perpetually warring camps. While that may have been true at the state and national levels of the movements, the evidence suggests that the relationship between the groups was much more fluid at the grassroots. In Washington County, Pennsylvania, colonizationists and radical abolitionists cooperated on various community-development initiatives during the 1830s. Slavery was important to these community elites. But other issues were just as important to them, if not more.

Degree

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Name thesis:degree_name
MA
Level thesis:degree_level
Immediate Access
Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
History
Year dc:date.available
2016

Author and committee

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Author dc:creator
  • Smydo, Joseph Andrew
Contributors dc:contributor
  • Perry Blatz
  • Michael Cahall
  • John Dwyer

Subjects

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Rights

Language dc:language
English

Identifiers

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Repository record dc:identifier
https://dsc.duq.edu/etd/1221
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:dsc.duq.edu:etd-2237

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2026-07-24
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citation

Smydo, Joseph Andrew. Unlikely Partners: Collaboration Between Colonizationists and Radical Abolitionists in Washington County, Pennsylvania, during the 1830s. Immediate Access thesis, 2016. https://dsc.duq.edu/etd/1221