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Peculiar rhetoric : slavery, freedom, and the African colonization movement
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The African colonization movement plays a peculiar role in the study of racial equality in the United States. For white colonizationists, the movement was positioned as a compromise between slavery...
The African colonization movement plays a peculiar role in the study of racial equality in the United States. For white colonizationists, the movement was positioned as a compromise between slavery and abolition. For free blacks, colonization offered the hope of freedom, but not within America's borders. Bjørn F. Stillion Southard shows how politics and identity were negotiated in middle of the public discourse on race, slavery, and freedom in America.
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- Creator
- Bjørn F. Stillion Southard
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- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2020
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- 1 online resource (183 pages)
- ISBNs
- 9781496823724, 1496823729, 1496823699
- Previously issued in print: 2019.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Peculiar argumentation: Henry Clay, Elias B. Caldwell, and the establishment of colonization's deliberative discourse -- Chapter 2: Peculiar voice: the counter memorial of the free people of colour of the District of Columbia and the unsettling of colonization's deliberative discourse -- Chapter 3: Peculiar planning: Louis Sheridan and the negotiation of diasporic and deliberative discourse -- Chapter 4: Peculiar obligations: Hilary Teage and the constitution of civic identity in Liberia -- Chapter 5: Peculiar proposal: Abraham Lincoln and the public policy advocacy for colonization -- Chapter 6: Conclusion: middle passages, emigration, and peculiar legacies
Subjects
- African Americans -- Colonization -- Liberia -- 19th century.
- Free Black people -- America -- History -- 19th century.
- Slavery -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
- Rhetoric -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
- American Colonization Society -- History -- 19th century.
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Political and social views.
- Clay, Henry, 1777-1852 -- Political and social views.
- Caldwell, Elias Boudinot, 1776-1825 -- Political and social views.
- Sheridan, Louis -- Political and social views.
- Teage, Hilary -- Political and social views.