Black Resettlement and the American Civil War

Black Resettlement and the American Civil War is the first comprehensive, comparative account of nineteenth-century America's greatest road not taken: the mass resettlement of African Americans outside the United States. It synthesizes individual, state-level, and national considerations to reorient the field and set a new standard for Atlantic history.

\n Format: Hardback
\n Length: 312 pages
\n Publication date: 28 January 2021
\n Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Based on extensive research conducted in six languages, Black Resettlement and the American Civil War presents the first comprehensive and comparative analysis of the untraveled path in nineteenth-century America: the mass resettlement of African Americans outside the United States. Building upon the renewed scholarly interest in the so-called colonization movement, the book extends beyond the stale debates regarding colonization's role in the struggle over slavery and the well-trodden black destinations of Liberia, Canada, and Haiti. With seamless ease, it traverses from Pittsburgh to Panama, Toronto to Trinidad, and Lagos to Louisiana, synthesizing a wealth of individual, state-level, and national factors to revolutionize the field and establish a new benchmark for Atlantic history. Along the way, it reveals that what haunted politicians ranging from Thomas Jefferson to Abraham Lincoln was not whether the abolition of slavery was morally right, but rather whether it was feasible to do so without separating the races.

\n Weight: 638g\n
Dimension: 160 x 236 x 29 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781107141773\n \n