Colonization and Its Discontents: Emancipation, Emigration, and Antislavery in Antebellum Pennsylvania
Beverly C. Tomek
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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Reviews for Colonization and Its Discontents: Emancipation, Emigration, and Antislavery in Antebellum Pennsylvania
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