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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"American colonization"”.
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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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An ethnohistorical comparative study of Scandinavian colonization on northern Vancouver Island, British Columbia : the Norwegians at Quatsino and the Danes at Cape Scott/San Josef Valley, 1894-1913
… this thesis documents and discusses Scandinavian colonization and settlement on northern Vancouver Island, British Columbia, at the turn of the century. There was an episode of Norwegian-American colonization at Quatsino, 1894-1900, an episode of Danish-American colonization at Cape Scott, …
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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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The eyewitness in American specular narrative : empiricism, representation, and the gaze
In this dissertation, I investigate American specular narrative which displays a significant level of visual empiricism and examine the implications of the eyewitness perspective such narrative assumes. Based on the epistemological assumption that "to see is to know," specular narrative imagines an …
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The Development Of Old-Growth Structural Characteristics In Second-Growth Forests Of The Cumberland Plateau, Kentucky, U.s.a.
<p>Prior to Euro-American colonization beginning in the late 1700s and subsequent periods of land conversion and intensive resource extraction, most forest on the Cumberland Plateau in Kentucky would have existed in a state meeting one or more of the definitions of old-growth forest in use today. …
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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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“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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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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Institutions by imposition : colonial lessons for contemporary state-building
… through a comparative study of the Japanese colonization of Taiwan (1895-1945) and the American colonization of the Philippines (1898-1941), which produced contrasting institutional legacies despite the presence of similar initial conditions. While a strong bureaucratic Taiwanese state arose …
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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 …
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Aspects of the biology of Mya arenaria and Ensis spp. (Mollusca; Bivalvia) in the Irish Sea and adjacent areas
… suggest a complicated origin involving North American colonization but also possible southern European Pleistocene refugia. Specimens of Ensis spp. were obtained from five coastal areas around Ireland and Wales and species-specific PCR primers were used to amplify the internal transcribed …
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Intergenerational Trauma in African and Native American Literatures
… concept of historical trauma as it relates to American Indians, whereby she found that trauma due to unresolved grief, disenfranchised grief, and unresolved internalized oppression could continue to manifest itself through many generations. This thesis will examine the intergenerational effects …