The Peculiar Solution: The American Colonization Society and Antislavery Sentiment in the South, 1820-1860

As for the extent of antislavery sentiment in the South, there are reasons to believe that many white Southerners doubted slavery's morality. First, the attributes displayed by manumitted emigrants---the talents and intelligence which led ACS slaveholders to reject proslavery arguments---were no different than the faculties exhibited by other bondpersons. Second, white Southerners often applauded and aided ACS manumissions. Third, Southern legislators and judges evinced liberal 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 approbation than opposition.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

History

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Burin, Eric A.

Contributors dc:contributor

• McColley, Robert

• Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI9921668

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/84748