Black Resettlement and the American Civil War (Cambridge Studies on the American South)

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But as Page shows, colonization in its classic form was only one among a variety of separatist options that captured the imaginations of white and Black Americans in the Civil War era.

Most notoriously, this impulse gave rise to "colonization," [End Page 575] the largely white-led movement to relocate free Black Americans to West Africa. He shifts the focus from Liberia to other, more proximate sites of colonizationist and emigrationist interest, including Canada, Haiti, and Jamaica.Striding effortlessly from Pittsburgh to Panama, Toronto to Trinidad, and Lagos to Louisiana, it synthesizes a wealth of individual, state-level, and national considerations to reorient the field and set a new standard for Atlantic history. In this respect, Black Resettlement and the American Civil War offers a revealing glimpse of the decentralized and often haphazard way policy was made under the Lincoln administration. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Page diagnoses a deep-seated "separatist impulse" at the heart of nineteenth-century American social and political life (p.

Along the way, it shows that what haunted politicians from Thomas Jefferson to Abraham Lincoln was not whether it was right to abolish slavery, but whether it was safe to do so unless the races were separated. All of these projects met with resistance from African Americans and (some) white abolitionists, who insisted that the freedpeople must be allowed to remain in the land of their birth. Sebastian Page is a historian of the United States and Atlantic world during the nineteenth century. Black Resettlement and the American Civil War sheds new light on the phenomenon of Black removal by broadening its chronological, institutional, and geographic scope.He highlights the sheer proliferation of institutions and actors working for Black resettlement during this later period, as well as the diversity of the locations under consideration. What the Black abolitionist David Walker described as "the colonizing trick" was also a colonizing default: a reflexive and almost universal urge to solve notionally "racial" problems by means of large-scale population transfer and physical separation (p. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. He is particularly good on the bureaucratic politics—the personal antipathies and turf battles—that constrained and ultimately hamstrung resettlement efforts (among other things, this book adds new luster to William H. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.

This engagingly written analysis of black resettlement is wide in geographic focus and institutional range.Magness to give us the most complete account to date of post-1863 efforts to resettle freedpeople in the British, Dutch, and Danish colonies in the Caribbean. By contrast, Page begins with the "revival" of colonization and emigration during the 1840s and 1850s (p. Project MUSE promotes the creation and dissemination of essential humanities and social science resources through collaboration with libraries, publishers, and scholars worldwide. C.–based American Colonization Society (ACS) established a colony for free Black Americans in Liberia. This volume enriches the transnational trajectory of US Civil War scholarship and provides fertile ground for delving deeply into specific areas of the controversy.

Charles Sumner, of Massachusetts on the bill providing for emancipation in Missouri, in the Senate of the United States, February 12th, 1863. However, if you are interested in the title for your course we can consider offering an inspection copy. In the final chapter, Page surveys a variety of internal colonization schemes, including Reconstruction-era plans for Black enclaves in Florida, Texas, and South Carolina. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.

Page brings the field into the post-Civil War period, covering the endurance of the 'separatist impetus,' which, he claims, amounted to global scale segregation and undermined the foundations of racial integration in America. He is the co-author of Colonization After Emancipation: Lincoln and the Movement for Black Resettlement. Black Resettlement and the American Civil War is the first comprehensive, comparative account of nineteenth-century America s efforts to resettle African Americans outside the United States. Examines the scale and complexity of black resettlement projects and proposals between the adoption of the U.