| Edition |
First Vintage Books edition. |
| Description |
xvii, 422 pages ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-403) and index. |
| Contents |
Some meanings of slavery and emancipation : dehumanization, animalization, and free soil -- The first emancipations : freedom and dishonor -- Colonizing blacks, part I: Migration and deportation -- Colonizing blacks, part II: The American Colonization Society and Americo-Liberians -- Colonizing blacks, part III: From Martin Delany to Henry Highland Garnet and Marcus Garvey -- Colonizationalist ideology : Leonard Bacon and "irremediable degradation" -- From opposing colonization to immediate abolition -- Free blacks as the key to slave emancipation -- Fugitive slaves, free soil, and the question of violence -- The Great Experiment : jubilee, responses, and failure -- The British mystique : black abolitionists in Britain--the leader of the Industrial Revolution and center of "wage slavery." |
| Subject |
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- United States.
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Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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African Americans -- Colonization -- Africa.
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Free African Americans -- History -- 19th century.
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Slavery -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Antislavery movements -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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American Colonization Society.
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| ISBN |
0307389693 (pbk.) |
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9780307389695 (pbk.) |
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