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Colonization after Emancipation : Lincoln and the movement for black resettlement / Phillip W. Magness and Sebastian N. Page.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Magness, Phillip W.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Slavery--United States--History--19th century.
- Slavery.
- African Americans--Colonization.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Colonization--West Indies, British.
- Enslaved persons--Emancipation--United States.
- Enslaved persons.
- Freed persons--United States--History--19th century.
- Freed persons.
- United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln). Emancipation Proclamation.
- United States.
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
- Lincoln, Abraham.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (180 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "Colonization after Emancipation reveals an unexplored chapter of the Emancipation story. A valuable contribution to Lincoln studies and Civil War history, this book unearths the facts about an ill-fated project and illuminates just how complex, even convoluted, Abraham Lincoln's ideas about the end of slavery really were"--Jacket flap.
- Contents:
- The curious politics of colonization
- American freedmen, British labor
- Mr. Lincoln's hobby
- The contrabands question
- This most desirable country
- A self-supporting scheme
- Secretary Seward and the Dutch treaty
- Administrative dysfunction, congressional displeasure
- The indefatigable James Mitchell
- Colonization repudiated, colonization revived?
- Colonization after emancipation.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780826272355
- 0826272355
- OCLC:
- 793207678
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