Authors: Allan Yarema
ISBN-13: 9780761833598, ISBN-10: 0761833595
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University Press of America
Date Published: February 2006
Edition: New Edition
In the early 1800s a major social movement, the American Colonization Society, secured marked support in the United States. Despite the endorsement of prominent humanitarians and sympathetic politicians in both the North and South, the colonization movement faltered in its initial goal of colonizing free blacks and its later efforts to encourage voluntary and gradual emancipation. This work explores the Society's organization, purpose, growth, and the various factors that led to its ultimate failure.
1 | Slavery and free Blacks : an American dilemma | 1 |
2 | A Black-free America | 15 |
3 | Back to Africa | 35 |
4 | Riveting the chains of slavery | 53 |