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Back to Africa:

Benjamin Coates and the Colonization Movement in America, 18481880
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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, including such leading thinkers as Joseph Jenkins Roberts, Mary Ann Shadd Cary, Henry Highland Garnet, Frederick Douglass, Alexander Crummell, George L. Stearns, and William Coppinger.

Creative and restless, cantankerous and charismatic, these men and women dominated the struggle to end slavery and to achieve respect for African Americans. Back to Africa sheds new light on these remarkable personalities and their tireless efforts at reform.


Contents

Preface

Benjamin Coates: A Chronology

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Benjamin Coates and the American Colonization Movement

by Emma J. Lapsansky-Werner and Margaret Hope Bacon

The Colonizationist Correspondence of Benjamin Coates

1. The Antebellum years, 1848–1860

2. The Civil War Years, 1862–1865

3. Reconstruction America, 1866–1880

Appendix I: Benjamin Coates' Will

Appendix II: Catalogue of Letters

Bibliography

Index



“Back to Africa is a terrific collection of letters, one of the most important to emerge on nineteenth-century reform in years. The numerous letters from well-known black and white abolitionists, coupled with the retrieval of letters written as well as received by Coates, make this an indispensable book for anyone interested in nineteenth-century race relations and reform.”

—John Stauffer, Harvard University

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