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Back to Africa : Benjamin Coates and the Colonization Movement in America, 1848-1880 by Margaret Hope Bacon
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Product Identifiers
PublisherPennsylvania STATE University Press
ISBN-100271027630
ISBN-139780271027630
eBay Product ID (ePID)61447484
Product Key Features
LanguageEnglish
TopicSocial Science, Antiques & Collectibles, Literary Collections, History, Slavery, Archaeology, American / African American, Letters, United States / 19th Century, United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), Buttons & Pins, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
AuthorMargaret Hope Bacon
IllustratorYes
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Item Height1 In.
Item Length9.1 In.
Item Weight23.2 Oz
Item Width6.8 In.
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Publication Year2007
ReviewsBack to Africa is a terrific collection of letters, one of the most important to emerge on nineteenth-century reform in years. The numerous letters from well-known black and white abolitionists, coupled with the retrieval of letters written as well as received by Coates, make this an indispensable book for anyone interested in nineteenth-century race relations and reform., " Back to Africa is a terrific collection of letters, one of the most important to emerge on nineteenth-century reform in years. The numerous letters from well-known black and white abolitionists, coupled with the retrieval of letters written as well as received by Coates, make this an indispensable book for anyone interested in nineteenth-century race relations and reform." --John Stauffer, Harvard University, " Back to Africa is a terrific collection of letters, one of the most important to emerge on nineteenth-century reform in years. The numerous letters from well-known black and white abolitionists, coupled with the retrieval of letters written as well as received by Coates, make this an indispensable book for anyone interested in nineteenth-century race relations and reform." -John Stauffer, Harvard University, " Back to Africa is a terrific collection of letters, one of the most important to emerge on nineteenth-century reform in years. The numerous letters from well-known black and white abolitionists, coupled with the retrieval of letters written as well as received by Coates, make this an indispensable book for anyone interested in nineteenth-century race relations and reform." --John Stauffer,Harvard University, &"Back to Africa is a terrific collection of letters, one of the most important to emerge on nineteenth-century reform in years. The numerous letters from well-known black and white abolitionists, coupled with the retrieval of letters written as well as received by Coates, make this an indispensable book for anyone interested in nineteenth-century race relations and reform.&" &-John Stauffer, Harvard University, "Back to Africa is a terrific collection of letters, one of the most important to emerge on nineteenth-century reform in years. The numerous letters from well-known black and white abolitionists, coupled with the retrieval of letters written as well as received by Coates, make this an indispensable book for anyone interested in nineteenth-century race relations and reform." -John Stauffer, Harvard University, "Back to Africa is a terrific collection of letters, one of the most important to emerge on nineteenth-century reform in years. The numerous letters from well-known black and white abolitionists, coupled with the retrieval of letters written as well as received by Coates, make this an indispensable book for anyone interested in nineteenth-century race relations and reform." --John Stauffer, Harvard University
FormatTrade Paperback
Book TitleBack to Africa : Benjamin Coates and the Colonization Movement in America, 1848-1880
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
Table Of ContentContents Preface Benjamin Coates: A Chronology Statement on Editorial Policies Benjamin Coates and the American Colonization Movement by Emma J. Lapsansky-Werner and Margaret Hope Bacon The Colonizationist Correspondence of Benjamin Coates 1. The Antebellum years, 1848-1860 2. The Civil War Years, 1862-1865 3. Reconstruction America, 1866-1880 Appendix I: Benjamin Coates' Will Appendix II: Catalogue of Letters Bibliography Index
SynopsisBenjamin Coates was one of the best-known white supporters of African colonization in nineteenth-century America. A Quaker businessman from Philadelphia and a sometime officer of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society, he was committed to helping black Americans relocate to West Africa. This put him at the center of a discourse with abolitionists at home and abroad, including such leading thinkers as Joseph Jenkins Roberts, Mary Ann Shadd Cary, Henry Highland Garnet, Frederick Douglass, Alexander Crummell, George L. Stearns, and William Coppinger. Creative and restless, cantankerous and charismatic, these men and women dominated the struggle to end slavery and to achieve respect for African Americans. Back to Africa sheds new light on these remarkable personalities and their tireless efforts at reform., Benjamin Coates was one of the best-known white supporters of African colonization in nineteenth-century America. A Quaker businessman from Philadelphia and a sometime officer of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society, he was committed to helping black Americans relocate to West Africa. This put him at the center of a discourse with abolitionists ......
Number of Pages368 pages
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