Black Resettlement and the American Civil War

Sebastian Page is a historian of the United States and Atlantic world during the nineteenth century. He is the co-author of Colonization After Emancipation: Lincoln and the Movement for Black Resettlement.

• Introduction; 1. The Revival of 'Colonization,' to 1861; 2. The Revival of 'Emigration,' to 1862; 3. The Republican Party and Resettlement, to 1863; 4. Resettlement in Latin America, to 1864; 5. Resettlement in the European West Indies, to 1865; 6. Alternatives to Foreign Resettlement, to 1868; Epilogue.

'This engagingly written analysis of black resettlement is wide in geographic focus and institutional range. Page brings the field into the post-Civil War period, covering the endurance of the 'separatist impetus,' which, he claims, amounted to global scale segregation and undermined the foundations of racial integration in America. This long-awaited study will figure prominently in discussions of resettlement for years to come.' Beverly C. Tomek, co-editor of New Directions in the Study of African American Recolonization