According to accepted historical wisdom, the goal of the African Colonization Society (ACS), founded in 1816 to return freed slaves to Africa, was borne of desperation and illustrated just how intractable the problems of race and slavery had become in the nineteenth-century Unit…
Introduction. The World Colonization Made -- A Republic Once Removed -- Colonization Doctrines -- Colonization Policies in an Age of Removal -- Settler Republics in Black and White -- The United States of Africa -- Reimagining Colonization in the Americas -- Epilogue. The Racial…
"This book is about the colonization movement of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in North America. The colonization movement was a movement and set of ideas to create independent democratic settlements of free African Americans outside the boundaries of the United S…