Colonization and Its Discontents: Emancipation, Emigration, and Antislavery in Antebellum Pennsylvania

by Beverly C. Tomek

Book Overview

Pennsylvania contained the largest concentration of early America's abolitionist leaders and organizations, making it a necessary and illustrative stage from which to understand how national conversations about the place of free blacks in early America originated and evolved, and, importantly, the role that colonization--supporting the emigration of free and emancipated blacks to Africa--played in national and international antislavery movements...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814764533
• ISBN13: 9780814764534
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"