Colonization and Its Discontents: Emancipation, Emigration, and Antislavery in Antebellum Pennsylvania Contributor(s): Tomek, Beverly C. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0814783481 ISBN-13: 9780814783481 Publisher: New York University Press OUR PRICE: $88.11 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2011 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - Middle Atlantic (dc, De, Md, Nj, Ny, Pa) - History | United States - 19th Century - Social Science | Slavery |
Dewey: 326.809 |
LCCN: 2010037511 |
Series: Early American Places (New York University Press) |
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.30 lbs) 304 pages |
Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Chronological Period - 1800-1850 - Geographic Orientation - Pennsylvania - Topical - Black History - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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 closely with other antislavery groups to further the goals of the abolitionist movement. |
Contributor Bio(s): Tomek, Beverly C.: - Beverly C. Tomek is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Houston-Victoria in Victoria, Texas. |