List of Maps, Tables, and Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- PART I: FOUNDATIONS -- Transatlantic Anti-Slavery Networks -- An African Middle Class -- Americans in Africa -- PART II: INTERACTIONS -- The Abolitionist Propaganda War -- Slave Trade Interventionism -- Commercial Rivalry and Liberian Independence -- Arguments for Colonial Expansion -- Epilogue: 1861 and Beyond -- Bibliography -- Index
Part I. Foundations -- Transatlantic Anti-Slavery Networks -- An African Middle Class -- Americans in Africa -- Part II. Interactions -- The Abolitionist Propaganda War -- Slave Trade Interventionism -- Commercial Rivalry and Liberian Independence -- Arguments for Colonial Expansion -- Epilogue: 1861 and Beyond
Summary
Anti-slavery colonies ₆ settlements for freed slaves that were intended to prevent the slave trade in West Africa ₆ were established by both American and British societies. Although they occasionally attempted to work together in support of these settlements and their anti-slave trade goals, the societies were more frequently in conflict. Looking for the origin of this Anglo-American rivalry, this book applies a comparative approach to freed slave settlers in Sierra Leone and Liberia. It examines the foundations of these societies, their contribution to the development of 'Civilization, Commerce, and Christianity' as a practical approach to anti-slavery interventions in West Africa, and the points of conflict between them that fed rivalries in America and Britain
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 03, 2019)
