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

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He is the co-author of Colonization After Emancipation: Lincoln and the Movement for Black Resettlement. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. 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. 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.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.The core of this book is a detailed reconstruction of the various plans for Black resettlement that swirled around the Abraham Lincoln administration during the Civil War. 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.

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.

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.

Most notoriously, this impulse gave rise to "colonization," [End Page 575] the largely white-led movement to relocate free Black Americans to West Africa.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. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Forged from a partnership between a university press and a library, Project MUSE is a trusted part of the academic and scholarly community it serves. 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. However, if you are interested in the title for your course we can consider offering an inspection copy. By contrast, Page begins with the "revival" of colonization and emigration during the 1840s and 1850s (p. 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. This volume enriches the transnational trajectory of US Civil War scholarship and provides fertile ground for delving deeply into specific areas of the controversy.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. 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. This sweeping insight drives Black Resettlement and the American Civil War, Page's wide-ranging history of the various movements for Black removal (both within and outside the United States) that operated between the 1840s and the Reconstruction era. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Black Resettlement and the American Civil War sheds new light on the phenomenon of Black removal by broadening its chronological, institutional, and geographic scope.