"Every historian working on colonization will want to read and engage this provocative history of the experience of African colonization for the manumitted, the manumitters, and their proslavery critics."--American Historical Review"One of the most insightful treatments of colonization in years."--Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography"Balanced, accessible, and thorough. Each of Burin's chapters explores the ACS from a specific perspective: ACS members who manumitted enslaved workers specifically to go to Liberia, the enslaved themselves, northern...
"Every historian working on colonization will want to read and engage this provocative history of the experience of African colonization for the manum...