Colonization after Emancipation Lincoln and the Movement for Black Resettlement |
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| Author:
| Magness, Phillip W.
Page, Sebastian N. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8262-1909-1 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2011 |
| Publisher: | University of Missouri Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $34.95 |
Book Description:
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Prior to Emancipation, President Abraham Lincoln was a proponent of colonization: the idea of sending African American slaves to another land to live as free people. This bookexplores the previously unknown truth about Lincoln's attitude toward colonization and exposes what history has neglected to reveal--that Lincoln continued to pursue colonization for close to a year after emancipation. The authors' research even shows that Lincoln may have been attempting to revive this...
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Prior to Emancipation, President Abraham Lincoln was a proponent of colonization: the idea of sending African American slaves to another land to live as free people. This bookexplores the previously unknown truth about Lincoln's attitude toward colonization and exposes what history has neglected to reveal--that Lincoln continued to pursue colonization for close to a year after emancipation. The authors' research even shows that Lincoln may have been attempting to revive this policy at the time of his assassination.