Colonization and Its Discontents

Emancipation, Emigration, and Antislavery in Antebellum Pennsylvania
by Beverly Tomek

“Surveys an extended period of time and the opinions of both black and white people, with the result being that Tomek has something important to say about the antislavery crusade in general and the colonization movement in particular.”—Eric Burin, author of Slavery and the Peculiar Solution: A History of the American Colonization Society

“Perhaps better than any other work, [Tomek] shows that antislavery was a wide ranging movement — and one continually haunted by the idea of racial control.”—Richard S. Newman, author of Freedom’s Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers

Forthcoming from NYU Press in Spring 2011.