Colonization and its discontents: emancipation, emigration, and antislavery in antebellum Pennsylvania

List of Illustrations

List of Abbreviations

Prologue

Introduction

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

2. "A certain simple grandeur … which awakens the benevolent heart": The American Colonization Society's Effective Marketing in Pennsylvania

3. "Calculated to remove the evils, and increase the happiness of society": Mathew Carey and the Political and Economic Side of African Colonization

4. "We here mean literally what we say": Elliott Cresson and the Pennsylvania Colonization Society's Humanitarian Agenda

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

6. "A thorough abolitionist could not be such without being a colonizationist": Benjamin Coates and Black Uplift in the United States and Africa

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

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

Epilogue

Notes

Index

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