Title Black resettlement and the American Civil War / Sebastian N. Page, University of Oxford

Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021 ©2021

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 307 pages) : illustrations, maps Series Cambridge studies on the American South Cambridge studies on the American South. Contents The Revival of "Colonization," to 1861 -- The Revival of "Emigration," to 1862 -- The Republican Party and Resettlement, to 1863 -- Resettlement in Latin America, to 1864 -- Resettlement in the European West Indies, to 1865 -- Alternatives to Foreign Resettlement, to 1868 Summary "From the Revolution to the Civil War, white Americans entertained the strangest of notions: their black compatriots, who comprised one-fifth of the population in 1770 and one-seventh by 1860, could, would, and should leave the United States for some other land. Stranger yet, the same blacks whom whites thought too degraded to ever form part of the American nation would civilize other peoples, thanks, ironically, to the American influences that they had imbued.1 That belief was called "colonization," at once an ideology, a movement, and, most famously, the eponymous project of the American Colonization Society (ACS), established in 1816-17.2 In the 1820s, the northern reformers and southern slaveholders who had founded the ACS secured a settlement in west Africa for black Americans, which they named Liberia. Although these "colonizationists"--That is to say, the supporters of colonization, as distinct from the colonists themselves - would be the best-known face of the movement, the ACS (and Liberia) was far from the only scheme (and location) that Americans had in mind. Indeed, the major contribution of this book is to chronicle the full geographic and institutional range of the drive for black resettlement"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from resource home page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed Oct. 12, 2021) Subject African Americans -- Colonization -- History -- 19th century Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- United States African Americans -- Colonization Emigration and immigration Refugees Enslaved persons -- Emancipation SUBJECT United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Refugees United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 19th century Subject United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2020053883 ISBN 9781316493915 1316493911 9781009038508 1009038508

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