Author: United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Emancipation and ColonizationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 83
Book Description
Report of the Select Committee on Emancipation and Colonization
Author: United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Emancipation and ColonizationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 83
Book Description
Report of the Select Committee on Emancipation and Colonization : with an Appendix
Author: United States. Congress. House Select Committee on Emancipation and ColonizationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Report of the Select Committee On Emancipation and Colonization
Author: United States Congress House SelecPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781020051630
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This 1862 report to the U.S. Congress explores the possibility of abolishing slavery in America and relocating former slaves to colonies in other parts of the world. The document includes testimony from a range of experts and advocates, and provides valuable insight into the political and social climate of the Civil War era. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Report of the Select Committee on Emancipation and Colonization, 1862
Author: Dumond Collection United S ColonizationPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780484434027
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Excerpt from Report of the Select Committee on Emancipation and Colonization, 1862: With an Appendix Your committee, therefore, conclude that our fathers who, when they brought their fortunes to this wilderness, came also with these fixed principles, opposition to prerogative and all hereditary right of rule, to aristocracy and titled nobility in all its forms, to tyranny of conscience, to limited privileges, and to burdensome Oppressions of rulers upon the ruled, could not have intended to leave within the core of the republican government they erected a principle hostile to all these. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
REPORT OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON EMANCIPATION AND COLONIZATION, 1862
Author: DUMOND COLLECTION UNITED STATES CONGRESS COLONIZATION (HOUSE, SELECT COMMITTEE ON EMANCIPATION.)Publisher:
ISBN: 9781033601181
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Emancipation and Colonization
Author: United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on EmancipationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Slaves
Languages : en
Pages : 83
Book Description
Wanted! A Nation!
Author: Claire Bourhis-MariottiPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820362719
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
Covering the whole of the nineteenth century, Wanted! A Nation! reveals how Haiti remained a focus of attention for white as well as Black Americans before, during, and even after the Civil War. Before the Civil War, Claire Bourhis-Mariotti argues, the Black republic was considered by free Black Americans as a place where full citizenship was at hand. Haiti was essentially viewed and concretely experienced as a refuge during moments when free Black Americans lost hope of obtaining rights in the United States. Haiti is also at the heart of this book, as Haitian leaders supported the American emigration to Haiti (in the 1820s and early 1860s), opposed the American geostrategic and diplomatic diktats in the 1870s and 1880s, and finally offered an international platform to Frederick Douglass at the 1893 Columbian World’s Fair, thus helping Black people who faced discrimination at home to fight first against slavery and the slave trade, and then for equal rights. By spanning the entire nineteenth century, Wanted! A Nation! presents a complex panorama of the emergence of African American identity and argues that Haiti should be considered as an essential prism to understand how African Americans forged their identity in the nineteenth century. Drawing on a variety of sources, Wanted! A Nation! goes far beyond the usual framework of national American history and contributes to the writing of an Atlantic and global history of the struggle for equal rights.
Lincoln's Lost Colony
Author: Boyce ThompsonPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476649359
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Abraham Lincoln is renowned for his stance on the emancipation of enslaved people in a period when America was sorely divided. At the same time, there was a little-known event that took place--one that left a stain on Lincoln's legacy, and has apologists still trying to expunge it today. This book tells the quiet but bloody history of Bernard Kock, a New Orleans entrepreneur with an ill-fated attempt at establishing a cotton plantation on Ile-a-Vache, a deserted Haitian island, using formerly enslaved Americans. It also covers Lincoln's involvement and support of Kock's plan, as well as his pledge of $50 in government funding for each of the 453 colonists. With chapters on Lincoln's encouragement of black deportation, the establishment of the plantation, the futile attempts at damage control and more, this text reveals an untold part of Lincoln's history.
Against Wind and Tide
Author: Ousmane K. Power-GreenePublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479876690
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Against Wind and Tide tells the story of African American's battle against the American Colonization Society (ACS), founded in 1816 with the intention to return free blacks to its colony Liberia. Although ACS members considered free black colonization in Africa a benevolent enterprise, most black leaders rejected the ACS, fearing that the organization sought forced removal. As Ousmane K. Power-Greene's story shows, these African American anticolonizationists did not believe Liberia would ever be a true "black American homeland." In this study of anticolonization agitation, Power-Greene draws on newspapers, meeting minutes, and letters to explore the concerted effort on the part of nineteenth century black activists, community leaders, and spokespersons to challenge the American Colonization Society's attempt to make colonization of free blacks federal policy. The ACS insisted the plan embodied empowerment. The United States, they argued, would never accept free blacks as citizens, and the only solution to the status of free blacks was to create an autonomous nation that would fundamentally reject racism at its core. But the activists and reformers on the opposite side believed that the colonization movement was itself deeply racist and in fact one of the greatest obstacles for African Americans to gain citizenship in the United States. Power-Greene synthesizes debates about colonization and emigration, situating this complex and enduring issue into an ever broader conversation about nation building and identity formation in the Atlantic world.
Beacons of Liberty
Author: Elena K. AbbottPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108871038
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Before the Civil War, free African Americans and fugitive slaves crossed international borders to places like Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean in search of freedom and equality. Beacons of Liberty tells the story of how these bold migrants catalyzed contentious debates over citizenship, racial justice, and national character in the United States. Blending fresh historical analysis with incredible stories of escape and rebellion, Elena K. Abbott shows how the shifting geography of slavery and freedom beyond US borders helped shape the hopes and expectations of black radicals, white politicians, and fiery reformers engaged in the American anti-slavery movement. Featuring perspectives from activists and risk-takers like Mary Ann Shadd, Martin Delany, and James C. Brown, Beacons of Liberty illuminates the critical role that international free soil played in the long and arduous fight for emancipation and racial justice in the United States.