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| Genre/Form: | Correspondence Sources Biography |
|---|---|
| Named Person: | Benjamin Coates; Benjamin Coates |
| Material Type: | Biography, Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Emma J Lapsansky-Werner; Margaret Hope Bacon |
| ISBN: | 0271026847 9780271026848 |
| OCLC Number: | 61694648 |
| Description: | xiv, 385 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Benjamin Coates: a chronology -- Statement on editorial policies -- Benjamin Coates and the colonization movement in America / Emma J. Lapsansky-Werner and Margaret Hope Bacon -- Colonizationist correspondence of Benjamin Coates -- Antebellum years, 1848-1860 -- Civil War years, 1862-1865 -- Reconstruction years, 1866-1880 -- Appendix I: Benjamin Coates's will -- Appendix II: Catalog of letters. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Emma J. Lapsansky-Werner, Margaret Hope Bacon ; with Marc Chalufour, Benjamin B. Miller, Meenakshi Rajan. |
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Abstract:
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, at home and abroad, that included such leading thinkers as Joseph Jenkins Roberts, Mary Ann Shadd Cary, Henry Highland Garnet, Frederick Douglass, Alexander Crummell, George L. Stearns, and William Coppinger. At the heart of the volume is a collection of over 150 recently recovered letters, either written by Coates or addressed to him between 1848 and 1880, the years when Coates was most active in racial reform. Lapansky-Werner and Bacon have provided a far-reaching essay that places them in the context of nineteenth-century African American colonization ideas, and the editors have led a team of young scholars who annotated the letters. Taken together, the letters provide insight into the alliances and divisions within America's antislavery movement, making Back to Africa essential reading for every student of black studies, abolitionism, Quaker history, and nineteenth-century reform in general. - Publisher.
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- Coates, Benjamin -- Correspondence.
- African Americans -- Colonization -- Africa -- Sources.
- Abolitionists -- Correspondence.
- Abolitionists -- Biography.
- Back to Africa movement -- History -- Sources.
- Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources.
- United States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century -- Sources.
- American letters.
- Coates, Benjamin.
- Sklaverei.
- Abschaffung.
- Kolonisation.
- Afrika.
- Amerika.
- Schwarze.
- USA.
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