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Colonization after emancipation : Lincoln and the movement for black resettlement
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"Colonization after Emancipation reveals an unexplored chapter of the Emancipation story. A valuable contribution to Lincoln studies and Civil War history, this book unearths the facts about an ill...
"Colonization after Emancipation reveals an unexplored chapter of the Emancipation story. A valuable contribution to Lincoln studies and Civil War history, this book unearths the facts about an ill-fated project and illuminates just how complex, even convoluted, Abraham Lincoln's ideas about the end of slavery really were"--Jacket flap.
Details
- Creator
- Phillip W. Magness and Sebastian N. Page
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri Press, [2011]
- ©2011
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource ( (x, 164 pages)) : illustrations, digital file
- data file
- ISBNs
- 9780826272355, 0826272355, 9780826219091, 0826219098, 0826219098, 9780826219091
- OCLC
- ocn868218048
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-158) and index.
- English.
- The curious politics of colonization -- American freedmen, British labor -- Mr. Lincoln's hobby -- The contrabands question -- This most desirable country -- A self-supporting scheme -- Secretary Seward and the Dutch treaty -- Administrative dysfunction, congressional displeasure -- The indefatigable James Mitchell -- Colonization repudiated, colonization revived? -- Colonization after emancipation
Subjects
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
- United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln).
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
Children's Subject Heading
- Freed persons -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
- Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- United States.
- African Americans -- Colonization -- West Indies, British.
- African Americans -- Colonization.
- Slavery -- United States -- History -- 19th century.