{"product_id":"slavery-and-the-peculiar-solution-a-history-of-the-american-colonization-society","title":"Slavery and the Peculiar Solution: A History of the American Colonization Society","description":"\"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.\"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--American Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \"One of the most insightful treatments of colonization in years.\"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \"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 fundraisers, white southerners, legal authorities, and finally, the freedpeople in Liberia.\"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--Journal of African American History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \"Presents a vivid portrait of the organization as a conduit through which several thousand African Americans passed from American slavery to African freedom.\"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--Journal of American History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \"Conveys the image of chattel slavery not as a monolithic structure controlling all masters and slaves everywhere but as a constantly changing entity throbbing with painful issues of personal and private rights in conflict with predominant opinions about social cohesion and custom. . . . The result is a refreshingly complex picture of American slavery.\"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \"A meticulously researched biography of one of the oft-overlooked cul-de-sacs in American history.\"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--Virginia Quarterly Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Eric Burin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Florida\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/20\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.82lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.88h x 6.55w x 0.73d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813032733\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEric Burin is assistant professor of history at the University of North Dakota.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University Press of Florida","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":53323814109482,"sku":"9780813032733","price":42.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1022\/4553\/1946\/files\/img_f1f1f410-74d7-4ba2-9334-62bdddf57410.jpg?v=1793058066","url":"https:\/\/delvanta.shop\/products\/slavery-and-the-peculiar-solution-a-history-of-the-american-colonization-society","provider":"Whitmore Lane","version":"1.0","type":"link"}