New directions in the study of African American recolonization / edited by Beverly C. Tomek and Matthew J. Hetrick ; foreword by Stanley Harrold and Randall M. Miller.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tomek, Beverly C., editor.

Hetrick, Matthew J., editor.

Harrold, Stanley, writer of foreword.

Miller, Randall M., writer of foreword.

Series:

Southern dissent.

Southern Dissent

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American Colonization Society.

African Americans--Colonization--Liberia.

African Americans.

Liberia--History.

Liberia.

United States--History.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (369 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Gainesville, [Florida] : University Press of Florida, 2017.

Summary:

Beginning in 1816, the American Colonization Society worked to send American blacks to resettle in Africa. From inception, however, its foundational ethos has been debated. These debates continued long after the effective end of the ACS during WWI through the Civil Rights movement to today, when even historians among the Press's own authors respectfully hold opposing views. In this volume, Beverly Tomek and Matthew Hetrick gather essays from scholars with different opinions and divergent methodologies, offering not only new research to address some of the old questions about American colonization and missionary activities but also new questions to spur further debate.

Contents:

Foreword / Stanley Harrold and Randall M. Miller

Introduction: the past, present, and future of colonization studies / Beverly C. Tomek

Reconsidering the missionary dimensions of colonization

Race, sympathy, and missionary sensibility in the New England colonization movement / Gayle L. Kenny

"The heathen are demanding the gospel": conversion, redemption, and African colonization / Ben Wright

"He be God who made dis man": Christianity and conversion in nineteenth-century Liberia / Andrew N. Wegmann

"Teaching them to observe all things": African American women, the great commission, and Liberia in the nineteenth century / Debra Newman Ham

Reconsidering the political and diplomatic dimensions of colonization

The American Colonization Society's not-so-private colonization project / David F. Ericson

James Monroe and the practicalities of emancipation and colonization / Daniel Preston

The Missouri crisis and the "changed object" of the American Colonization Society / Nicholas P. Wood

Situating African colonization within the history of U.s. expansion / Brandon Mills

Experiments in colonial citizenship in Sierra Leone and Liberia / Bronwen Everill

The American Colonization Society and the Civil War / Sebastian N. Page

Redirecting the field and offering new answers to old questions

The Cape Mesurado contract: a reconsideration / Eric Burin

"A desire to better their condition": European immigration, African colonization, and the lure of consensual emancipation / Andrew Diemer

The end of emancipation street: "civilization," race, and cartography in colonial Liberia / Robert Murray

Rewriting their own history; or, the many Paul Cuffes / Matthew J. Hetrick

The changing legacy of Civil War colonization / Phillip W. Magness

Rethinking colonization in the early United States / Nicholas Guyatt.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8130-7276-X

0-8130-5301-3

0-8130-5265-3

OCLC:

992941672