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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Page, Sebastian N. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2021]
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.