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The world colonization made : the racial geography of early American empire /

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 States, imperialism by...

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Main Author:	Mills, Brandon (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2020]
Series:	Early American studies.
Subjects:	American Colonization Society > History > 19th century. Colonization. Free blacks > America > History > 19th century. Slavery > United States > History > 19th century. African Americans > Colonization > Liberia > History. African Americans > Colonization > Central America > History > 19th century. Indians of North America > Colonization > History > 19th century. Imperialism. United States > Race relations > History > 19th century. United States > History > 1783-1865. Liberia > Colonization.

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