Slavery and the Peculiar Solution: A History of the American Colonization Society - Brossura

Burin, Eric

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ISBN 10: 0813032733 ISBN 13: 9780813032733

Casa editrice: Univ Pr of Florida, 2008

Riassunto

"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

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Eric Burin is assistant professor of history at the University of North Dakota.

Product Description:

Book by BURIN ERIC

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ Pr of Florida
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0813032733
• ISBN 13: 9780813032733
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 223