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Author Burin, Eric, author.

Title Slavery and the peculiar solution : a history of the American Colonization Society / Eric Burin.

Publication Info. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2008.

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 Axe ACLS Humanities E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Edition First paperback edition, 2008.
Description 1 online resource (xviii, 223 pages)
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Series Southern dissent
Southern dissent.
ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-214) and index.
Contents Introduction: American Colonization Society manumissions and slavery -- 1. An overview of the African colonization movement -- 2. ACS manumitters: their ideology and intentions -- 3. Slaves: negotiating for freedom -- 4. The Pennsylvania Colonization Society as a facilitator of manumission -- 5. White Southerners' responses to ACS manumissions -- 6. ACS manumissions and the law -- 7. Liberia: freedpersons' experiences in Africa.
Reproduction Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2022. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book])
Note All rights reserved.
Subject American Colonization Society.
Slaves -- Emancipation -- Southern States.
African Americans -- Colonization -- Africa, West.
African Americans -- Colonization -- Liberia.
Liberia -- History -- To 1847.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author American Council of Learned Societies.
Added Title ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: http://www.humanitiesebook.org/
ISBN 0813032733
9780813032733 paperback
Standard No. heb40094 hdl

 
    
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