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"Every historian working on colonization will want to read and engage this provocative history of the experience of African colonization for the manumitted, the manumitters, and their proslavery critics."--American Historical Review "One of the most insightful treatments of colonization in years."--Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography "Balanced, accessible, and thorough. Each of Burin's chapters explores the ACS from a specific perspective: ACS members who manumitted enslaved workers specifically to go to Liberia, the enslaved themselves, northern fundraisers, white southerners, legal authorities, and finally, the freedpeople in Liberia."--Journal of African American History "Presents a vivid portrait of the organization as a conduit through which several thousand African Americans passed from American slavery to African freedom."--Journal of American History "Conveys the image of chattel slavery not as a monolithic structure controlling all masters and slaves everywhere but as a constantly changing entity throbbing with painful issues of personal and private rights in conflict with predominant opinions about social cohesion and custom. . . . The result is a refreshingly complex picture of American slavery."--History "A meticulously researched biography of one of the oft-overlooked cul-de-sacs in American history."--Virginia Quarterly Review

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ University Press of Florida; First Paperback Edition (April 20, 2008)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 240 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0813032733
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0813032733
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.4 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.55 x 9 inches

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Sad but factual informative written objectively and non-biased. Unless one does not know their history, then they not only know who they are, where they came from, or where they are going. Every African American should have this book in their library.

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This book traces the origins of the American Colonization Society through the growth abolitionist thought, primarily in the Quaker communities of North Carolina. Though short (some 170 pages of text), it does a great deal for the small-but-expanding historiography on one of the strangest, complex, and debatable associations within American antebellum race relations. Prof. Burin (University of North Dakota) tracks the purchase-and-free practices of the North Carolina Quakers, and their connections with, and use of, the American Colonization Society (ACS) as a means of anti-slavery action. He focuses on the prime role the ACS played in the anti-slavery movement even though the Society itself never claimed to be either pro- or anti-slavery at any point in its history. That is the essential strength of the book--Prof. Burin explains how the ACS was used by certain groups and communities for certain, often contradictory, purposes, yet every action ended up feeding the growing colony (and later republic) of Liberia in West Africa. From these mixed efforts, Liberia developed an elite settler society of mixed-raced Americans who used their shared American history and origin to establish dominance over the native Liberian population, while concurrently defining themselves and each other within a complex, race-based social structure that reflected American cultural and racial norms more than anything else. This is a fine book for those interested in the history and policy of the American Colonization Society or the anti-slavery machinations of the Quaker communities of the Atlantic seaboard.

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