Against Wind and Tide: The African American Struggle Against the Colonization Movement

by Ousmane K. Power-Greene

Book Overview

Against Wind and Tide tells the story of African American's battle against the American Colonization Society (ACS), founded in 1816 with the intention to return free blacks to its colony Liberia. Although ACS members considered free black colonization in Africa a benevolent enterprise, most black leaders rejected the ACS, fearing that the organization sought forced removal. As Ousmane K. Power-Greene's story shows, these African American anticolonizationists...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479823171
• ISBN13: 9781479823178
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"