The world colonization made : the racial geography of early American empire
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The world colonization made : the racial geography of early American empire
（Early American studies）
University of Pennsylvania Press, c2020
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According to accepted historical wisdom, the goal of the African Colonization Society (ACS), founded in 1816 to return freed slaves to Africa, was borne of desperation and illustrated just how intractable the problems of race and slavery had become in the nineteenth-century United States. But for Brandon Mills, the ACS was part of a much wider pattern of national and international expansion. Similar efforts on the part of the young nation to create, in Thomas Jefferson's words, an "empire of liberty," spanned Native removal, the annexation of Texas and California, filibustering campaigns in Latin America, and American missionary efforts in Hawaii, as well as the founding of Liberia in 1821. Mills contends that these diverse currents of U.S. expansionism were ideologically linked and together comprised a capacious colonization movement that both reflected and shaped a wide range of debates over race, settlement, citizenship, and empire in the early republic.
The World Colonization Made chronicles the rise and fall of the colonization movement as a political force within the United States-from its roots in the crises of the Revolutionary era, to its peak with the creation of the ACS, to its ultimate decline with emancipation and the Civil War. The book interrogates broader issues of U.S. expansion, including the progression of federal Indian policy, the foundations and effects of the Monroe Doctrine and Manifest Destiny, and the growth of U.S. commercial and military power throughout the Western hemisphere. By contextualizing the colonization movement in this way, Mills shows how it enabled Americans to envision a world of self-governing republics that harmonized with racial politics at home.
Table of Contents
Introduction. The World Colonization Made
Chapter 1. A Republic Once Removed
Chapter 2. Colonization Doctrines
Chapter 3. Colonization Policies in an Age of Removal
Chapter 4. Settler Republics in Black and White
Chapter 5. The United States of Africa
Chapter 6. Reimagining Colonization in the Americas
Epilogue. The Racial Geography of America's Imperial Future
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments
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