Colonization After Emancipation: Lincoln and the Movement for Black Resettlement

Acknowledgments

We would like to extend our acknowledgment and gratitude to the many individuals who assisted us in our research and provided the support necessary to make this project a reality. First, we would like to thank Jack Dorsey of Mt. Zion, Georgia, for his invaluable assistance with the location of biographical material on Rev. James Mitchell. Dorsey is a local historian and retired educator from the Carroll County School District, the successor institution to a school system founded by Mitchell after his service as Abraham Lincoln’s Emigration Commissioner. He is currently the director of the Mt. Zion Community Center. We also extend our many thanks to Doctors Jay Sexton and Richard Carwardine of the University of Oxford, Adam Tate of Clayton State University, and Catherine Rudder of George Mason University, each of whom provided many helpful suggestions as readers during the development of this manuscript. We further extend our gratitude to Mark Borgiasz and Laura Domyan, who assisted with the editing of source materials and the final preparation of this manuscript for publication. We would also like to thank the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK), Peter Parish Memorial Fund, and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, for the funding and bursaries provided to one of the authors, and to the School of Public Policy, George Mason University, which provided a travel grant to assist with the development of this research. Acknowledgments Colonization after Emancipation ...