New directions in the study of African American recolonization /edited by Beverly C. Tomek and Matthew J. Hetrick ; foreword by Stanley Harrold and Randall M. Miller.
New directions in the study of African-American recolonization
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, (c)2017.
- 1 online resource (ix, 356 pages)
- Southern dissent .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Foreword / Introduction: the past, present, and future of colonization studies / Part I: Reconsidering the missionary dimensions of colonization. Race, sympathy, and missionary sensibility in the New England colonization movement / "The heathen are demanding the gospel": conversion, redemption, and African colonization / "He be God who made dis man": Christianity and conversion in nineteenth-century Liberia / "Teaching them to observe all things": African American women, the great commission, and Liberia in the nineteenth century / Part II: Reconsidering the political and diplomatic dimensions of colonization. The American Colonization Society's not-so-private colonization project / James Monroe and the practicalities of emancipation and colonization / The Missouri crisis and the "changed object" of the American Colonization Society / Situating African colonization within the history of U.s. expansion / Experiments in colonial citizenship in Sierra Leone and Liberia / The American Colonization Society and the Civil War / Part III: Redirecting the field and offering new answers to old questions. The Cape Mesurado contract: a reconsideration / "A desire to better their condition": European immigration, African colonization, and the lure of consensual emancipation / The end of emancipation street: "civilization," race, and cartography in colonial Liberia / Rewriting their own history; or, the many Paul Cuffes / The changing legacy of Civil War colonization / Rethinking colonization in the early United States / Stanley Harrold and Randall M. Miller -- Beverly C. Tomek -- Gayle L. Kenny -- Ben Wright -- Andrew N. Wegmann -- Debra Newman Ham -- David F. Ericson -- Daniel Preston -- Nicholas P. Wood -- Brandon Mills -- Bronwen Everill -- Sebastian N. Page -- Eric Burin -- Andrew Diemer -- Robert Murray -- Matthew J. Hetrick -- Phillip W. Magness -- Nicholas Guyatt.
Beginning in 1816, the American Colonization Society worked to send American blacks to resettle in Africa. From inception, however, its foundational ethos has been debated. These debates continued long after the effective end of the ACS during WWI through the Civil Rights movement to today, when even historians among the Press's own authors respectfully hold opposing views. In this volume, Beverly Tomek and Matthew Hetrick gather essays from scholars with different opinions and divergent methodologies, offering not only new research to address some of the old questions about American colonization and missionary activities but also new questions to spur further debate.