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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"American Colonization Society"”.
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The American Colonization Society
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The Peculiar Solution: The American Colonization Society and Antislavery Sentiment in the South, 1820-1860
… attitudes toward ACS emancipations. Whatever colonization's logistical limitations, the ACS's failures cannot be blamed on resistance from white Southerners. To the extent that colonization was an antislavery endeavor---and the Society's record is admittedly ambiguous---it encountered far more …
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The role of women in national development in Liberia, 1800-1900
… 1800-1900. It was during this period that the American Colonization Society(A.C.S.) and its auxiliaries established a colony on the West Coast of Africa for resettlement of African-Americans. About seven thousand women from this group went through a long period of interaction with the …
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The sweet, sweet sound of liberty: black settlers and their early education initiative in Liberia, 1820-1860
… West Africa, from 1820–1860: a period where colonization to Liberia was voluntary, supported by the American Colonization Society, and therefore attracting many colonists. The traditional narrative of Liberia's unique history was built on colonization, Christianization, and Westernization. …
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“HERE THEY ARE IN THE LOWEST STATE OF SOCIAL GRADATION —ALIENS—POLITICAL—MORAL—SOCIAL ALIENS, STRANGERS, THOUGH NATIVES”: REMOVAL AND COLONIZATION IN THE OLD NORTHWEST, 1815-1870
This dissertation examines African colonization and Native removal colonization schemes and their relationship to the development of states carved out of the Northwest Territory. Colonization advocates sought to expunge the nation of slavery, free blacks, and native peoples to make a white …
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DEFYING CONVENTION: ATYPICAL PERSPECTIVES OF SLAVERY IN ANTEBELLUM NEW ORLEANS
… often neglect the complicated dynamics of American slavery and instead depict the institution in simplistic terms. The traditional view has emphasized an image of white southerners as slaveholders and blacks as slaves. In New Orleans, the lives of three men—all of whom were tied to slavery …
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Rethinking the Liberian Predicament in Anti-Black Terms: On Repatriation, Modernity, and the Ethno-Racial Choreographies of Civil War
… 1822, the Colony of Liberia was annexed by the American Colonization Society to expatriate and colonize ‘free’ negros and their descendants on the coast of West Africa. ‘Re-colonization’, as it was called by the ruling U.S. Southern class, was rendered a compromise between the absolute abolition …
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Little short of national murder: Forced migration and the making of diasporas in the Atlantic world, 1745--1865
… as a key tool in the construction of the Anglo-American Atlantic World. British officials used removal to secure the empire, ridding the realm of Catholic menaces, black insurgents, challenges to the throne and the brutal conflicts between English colonists and Native Americans. American …