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Author Tomek, Beverly C., author.

Title Colonization and its discontents : emancipation, emigration, and antislavery in antebellum Pennsylvania / Beverly C. Tomek
Published New York : New York University Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 296 pages) : illustrations
Series Early American places
Early American places.
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
Subject Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery -- History
Pennsylvania Colonization Society -- History
Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society -- History
SUBJECT Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society fast
Pennsylvania Colonization Society fast
Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery fast
American Colonization Society gnd
Subject Antislavery movements -- Pennsylvania -- History
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- Pennsylvania -- History
Free African Americans -- Pennsylvania -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Slavery.
HISTORY -- United States -- Colonial Period (1600-1775)
Antislavery movements
Free African Americans
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation
Sklaverei
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780814783498
081478349X
9780814784433
0814784437