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10%OFFBeverly C. Tomek - Colonization and Its Discontents: Emancipation, Emigration, and Antislavery in Antebellum Pennsylvania - 9780814764534 - V9780814764534
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Colonization and Its Discontents: Emancipation, Emigration, and Antislavery in Antebellum Pennsylvania

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Description for Colonization and Its Discontents: Emancipation, Emigration, and Antislavery in Antebellum Pennsylvania Paperback. Examination of the complexity of the colonization movement, describing the difference between those who supported colonization for political and social reasons and those who supported it for religious and humanitarian reasons Series: Early American Places. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBBEP; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 163 x 17. Weight in Grams: 458.

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 colonizationist leaders (both black and white) enables her to boldly and innovatively demonstrate that, in Philadelphia at least, the American Colonization Society often worked ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Series
Early American Places
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780814764534
SKU
V9780814764534
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Ref
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About Beverly C. Tomek
Beverly C. Tomek is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Houston-Victoria in Victoria, Texas.

Reviews for Colonization and Its Discontents: Emancipation, Emigration, and Antislavery in Antebellum Pennsylvania
Colonization and Its Discontents is an interesting and useful contribution to the ever-growing historiography of nineteenth-century American antislavery movements.
Erica Armstrong Dunbar
Pennsylvania Magazine of History of Biography
An enlightening examination of the role of colonization in the state and national controversies over slavery, abolition, and civil rights in antebellum America.
Nicholas Wood
Pennsylvania History ... Read more

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