Colonization and Its Discontents: Emancipation, Emigration, and Antislavery in Antebellum Pennsylvania

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Contents List of Illustrations xi List of Abbreviations xii Prologue xiii Introduction 1 1 “Many negroes in these parts may prove prejudissial several wayes to us and our posteraty”: The Crucial Elements of Exclusion and Social Control in Pennsylvania’s Early Antislavery Movement 18 2 “A certain simple grandeur . . . which awakens the benevolent heart”: The American Colonization Society’s Effective Marketing in Pennsylvania 43 3 “Calculated to remove the evils, and increase the happiness of society”: Mathew Carey and the Political and Economic Side of African Colonization 63 4 “We here mean literally what we say”: Elliott Cresson and the Pennsylvania Colonization Society’s Humanitarian Agenda 93 5 “They will never become a people until they come out from amongst the white people”: James Forten and African American Ambivalence to African Colonization 132 x / contents 6 “A thorough abolitionist could not be such without being a colonizationist”: Benjamin Coates and Black Uplift in the United States and Africa 163 7 “Our elevation must be the result of self-efforts, and work of our own hands”: Martin R. Delany and the Role of Self-Help and Emigration in Black Uplift 187 8 “Maybe the Devil has got to come out of these people before we will have peace”: Assessing the Successes and Failures of Pennsylvania’s Competing Antislavery Agendas 219 Epilogue 239 Notes 249 Index 291 About the Author 297 ...