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1 online resource (xxiii, 296 pages) : illustrations |
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Early American places |
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Early American places.
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Contents |
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 |
Summary |
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 role that colonization-supporting the emigration of free and emancipated blacks to Africa-played in national and international antislavery movements. Beverly C. Tomek's meticulous exploration of the archives of the American Colonization Society, Pennsylvania's abolitionist societies, and colonization |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
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Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery -- History
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Pennsylvania Colonization Society -- History
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Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society -- History
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Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society fast |
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Pennsylvania Colonization Society fast |
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Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery fast |
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American Colonization Society gnd |
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Antislavery movements -- Pennsylvania -- History
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Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- Pennsylvania -- History
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Free African Americans -- Pennsylvania -- History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Slavery.
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HISTORY -- United States -- Colonial Period (1600-1775)
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Antislavery movements
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Free African Americans
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Enslaved persons -- Emancipation
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Sklaverei
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Pennsylvania
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Pennsylvania
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780814783498 |
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081478349X |
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9780814784433 |
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0814784437 |
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