Colonization and Its Discontents : : Emancipation, Emigration, and Antislavery in Antebellum Pennsylvania /

Colonization and Its Discontents : : Emancipation, Emigration, and Antislavery in Antebellum Pennsylvania / / Beverly C. Tomek.

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Pennsylvania contained the largest concentration of early America’s abolitionist leaders and organizations, making it a necessary and illustrative stage from which to understand how national conversations about the place of free blacks in early America originated and evolved, and, importantly, the r...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Tomek, Beverly C.,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Early American Places ; 3
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Prologue
  • Introduction
  • 1 “Many negroes in these parts may prove prejudissial several wayes to us and our posteraty”: The Crucial Elements of Exclusion and Social Control in Pennsylvania’s Early Antislavery Movement
  • 2 “A certain simple grandeur . . . which awakens the benevolent heart”: The American Colonization Society’s Effective Marketing in Pennsylvania
  • 3 “Calculated to remove the evils, and increase the happiness of society”: Mathew Carey and the Political and Economic Side of African Colonization
  • 4 “We here mean literally what we say”: Elliott Cresson and the Pennsylvania Colonization Society’s Humanitarian Agenda
  • 5 “They will never become a people until they come out from amongst the white people”: James Forten and African American Ambivalence to African Colonization
  • 6 “A thorough abolitionist could not be such without being a colonizationist”: Benjamin Coates and Black Uplift in the United States and Africa
  • 7 “Our elevation must be the result of self-efforts, and work of our own hands”: Martin R. Delany and the Role of Self-Help and Emigration in Black Uplift
  • 8 “Maybe the Devil has got to come out of these people before we will have peace”: Assessing the Successes and Failures of Pennsylvania’s Competing Antislavery Agendas
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Index
  • About the Author

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