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History has long acknowledged that President Abraham Lincoln, the Great Emancipator, had considered other approaches to rectifying the problem of slavery during his administration. Prior to Emancipation, Lincoln was a proponent of colonization: the idea of sending African American slaves to... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Abraham Lincoln: 16th President of the United States, the "Great Emancipator"
- James Mitchell: Abraham Lincoln's Commissioner of Emigration. Mitchell was in charge of Lincoln's programs to resettle the slaves abroad.
- John Hodge: Manager of the British Honduras Company and a partner in one of Lincoln's colonization schemes
- William H. Seward: Abraham Lincoln's secretary of state. An opponent of colonization, he occasionally created roadblocks to the implementation of this policy
- Benjamin F. Butler: Civil war general on the Union side. Butler claimed near the end of his life that he met with Lincoln in April 1865 to discuss the colonization of freed slaves in Panama
- Lord Lyons: British Minister to the United States during the Lincoln Administration
- J. Willis Menard: Menard was a free northern black who later became the first African-American elected to Congress. During the Civil War he worked as a clerk in the Emigration Office, supporting colonization
- Edwin M. Stanton: Abraham Lincoln's secretary of war. He viewed colonization as a competitor to his effort to recruit black soldiers into the union army
- Lord John Russell: British Foreign Secretary during the Lincoln Administration
- Montgomery Blair: The most pro-colonization member of Lincoln's cabinet, he served as Postmaster General
- Francis Hincks: British colonial governor
- William Wemyss Anderson: A British abolitionist who was active in the Jamaican antislavery movement, and later the United States
- Caleb B. Smith: Lincoln's pro-colonization Secretary of the Interior
- James Harlan: Senator from Iowa and Secretary of the Interior
- Edward Bates: Abraham Lincoln's attorney general
- Guiana: Add a description of this character.
- Henry Highland Garnet: Pro-emigration abolitionist
- Matthew Simpson: Methodist minister who presided over Abraham Lincoln's funeral
- Jefferson Davis: Confederate president
- George M. Fredrickson: Civil War historian
Organizations edit
- African Civilization Society: Henry Highland Garnet's abolitionist organization
- American Colonization Society: 19th century political organization founded to support the resettlement of black slaves in Liberia
Authors & Contributors edit
- Phillip W. Magness (Author) - George Mason University
- Sebastian N. Page
Other Contributors:
- Sebastian N. Page (Author) - University of Oxford
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Country: United States
Publication Date: February 2011
ISBN: 0826219098
Page Count: 178
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Country: United States
Publication Date: February 2011
ISBN: 0826219098
Page Count: 178
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 973
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Links to Supplemental Material edit
- Phillip W. Magness: Author's website
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