Colonization After Emancipation: Lincoln and the Movement for Black Resettlement Book

Contents

Preface....................vii
Acknowledgments....................xi
Chapter 1 The Curious Politics of Colonization....................1
Chapter 2 American Freedmen, British Labor....................13
Chapter 3 Mr. Lincoln's Hobby....................24
Chapter 4 The Contrabands Question....................39
Chapter 5 This Most Desirable Country....................43
Chapter 6 A Self-Supporting Scheme....................55
Chapter 7 Secretary Seward and the Dutch Treaty....................73
Chapter 8 Administrative Dysfunction, Congressional Displeasure....................82
Chapter 9 The Indefatigable James Mitchell....................96
Chapter 10 Colonization Repudiated, Colonization Revived?....................105
Chapter 11 Colonization after Emancipation....................118
Notes....................129
Sources....................159
Index....................161