Black resettlement and the American Civil War /
From the Revolution to the Civil War, white Americans entertained the strangest of notions. Their black compatriots, who comprised one-fifth of the population in 1770 and one-seventh by 1860, could, would and should leave the United States for some other land. Stranger yet, the same blacks whom whit...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
[2021]
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| Series: | Cambridge studies on the American South.
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Table of Contents:
- The Revival of "Colonization," to 1861
- The Revival of "Emigration," to 1862
- The Republican Party and Resettlement, to 1863
- Resettlement in Latin America, to 1864
- Resettlement in the European West Indies, to 1865
- Alternatives to Foreign Resettlement, to 1868.