Page brings the field into the post-Civil War period, covering the endurance of the 'separatist impetus,' which, he claims, amounted to global scale segregation and undermined the foundations of racial integration in America. In this respect, Black Resettlement and the American Civil War offers a revealing glimpse of the decentralized and often haphazard way policy was made under the Lincoln administration. But as Page shows, colonization in its classic form was only one among a variety of separatist options that captured the imaginations of white and Black Americans in the Civil War era. He shifts the focus from Liberia to other, more proximate sites of colonizationist and emigrationist interest, including Canada, Haiti, and Jamaica.

Along the way, it shows that what haunted politicians from Thomas Jefferson to Abraham Lincoln was not whether it was right to abolish slavery, but whether it was safe to do so unless the races were separated. Page diagnoses a deep-seated "separatist impulse" at the heart of nineteenth-century American social and political life (p. He highlights the sheer proliferation of institutions and actors working for Black resettlement during this later period, as well as the diversity of the locations under consideration. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Black Resettlement and the American Civil War sheds new light on the phenomenon of Black removal by broadening its chronological, institutional, and geographic scope.We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. C.–based American Colonization Society (ACS) established a colony for free Black Americans in Liberia. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Forged from a partnership between a university press and a library, Project MUSE is a trusted part of the academic and scholarly community it serves. What the Black abolitionist David Walker described as "the colonizing trick" was also a colonizing default: a reflexive and almost universal urge to solve notionally "racial" problems by means of large-scale population transfer and physical separation (p.

Magness to give us the most complete account to date of post-1863 efforts to resettle freedpeople in the British, Dutch, and Danish colonies in the Caribbean.Project MUSE promotes the creation and dissemination of essential humanities and social science resources through collaboration with libraries, publishers, and scholars worldwide.

However, if you are interested in the title for your course we can consider offering an inspection copy. Black Resettlement and the American Civil War is the first comprehensive, comparative account of nineteenth-century America s efforts to resettle African Americans outside the United States. He is the co-author of Colonization After Emancipation: Lincoln and the Movement for Black Resettlement. By taking a panoramic view of colonization and related projects, Page shows just how pervasive the "separatist impulse" was in nineteenth-century American life.Sebastian Page is a historian of the United States and Atlantic world during the nineteenth century. Most notoriously, this impulse gave rise to "colonization," [End Page 575] the largely white-led movement to relocate free Black Americans to West Africa.