The first comprehensive, comparative account of nineteenth-century America's efforts to resettle African Americans outside the United States.

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.