Back to Africa Benjamin Coates and the Colonization Movement in America, 1848-1880 |
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| Editor:
| Lapsansky-Werner, Emma J.
Bacon, Margaret Hope |
| ISBN: | 978-0-271-02763-0 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2007 |
| Publisher: | Pennsylvania State University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $33.95 |
Book Description:
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Benjamin Coates was one of the best-known white supporters of African colonization in nineteenth-century America. A Quaker businessman from Philadelphia and a sometime officer of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society, he was committed to helping black Americans relocate to West Africa. This put him at the center of a discourse with abolitionists ......
Benjamin Coates was one of the best-known white supporters of African colonization in nineteenth-century America. A Quaker businessman from Philadelphia and a sometime officer of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society, he was committed to helping black Americans relocate to West Africa. This put him at the center of a discourse with abolitionists ......