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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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Bibliographic Details
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.
Table of Contents:
  • 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 Geography of America's Imperial Future.