Slavery and the peculiar solution : a history of the American Colonization Society /

Slavery and the peculiar solution : a history of the American Colonization Society / Eric Burin.

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Adds significantly to our understanding of the world view of slaveholding colonizationists, of their negotiations with prospectively freed people, and of their struggle with proslavery critics of colonization.

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author:	Burin, Eric
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2008.
Edition:	1st pbk. ed., 2008.
Series:	Southern dissent.
Subjects:	American Colonization Society. Enslaved persons > Emancipation > Southern States. African Americans > Colonization > Africa, West. African Americans > Colonization > Liberia. African Americans > Colonization. Enslaved persons > Emancipation. Liberia > History > To 1847. West Africa. Liberia. Southern States. History.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: American Colonization Society manumissions and slavery
1. An overview of the African colonization movement
2. ACS manumitters: their ideology and intentions
3. Slaves: negotiating for freedom
4. The Pennsylvania Colonization Society as a facilitator of manumission
5. White Southerners' responses to ACS manumissions
6. ACS manumissions and the law
7. Liberia: freedpersons' experiences in Africa.