Colonization and its discontents : emancipation, emigration, and antislavery in antebellum Pennsylvania / Beverly C. Tomek.

New York : New York University Press, [2011], ©2011.

xxiii, 296 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

1. "Many negroes in these parts may prove prejudissial several wayes to us and our posteraty": the crucial elements of exclusion and social control in Pennsylvania's early antislavery movement -- 2. "A certain simple grandeur...which awakens the benevolent heart": the American Colonization Society's effective marketing in Pennsylvania -- 3. "Calculated to remove the evils, and increase the happiness of society": Mathew Carey and the political and economic side of African colonization -- 4. "We here mean literally what we say": Elliott Cresson and the Pennsylvania Colonization Society's humanitarian agenda -- 5. "They will never become a people until they come out from amongst the white people": James Forten and African American ambivalence to African colonization -- 6. "A thorough abolitionist could not be such without being a colonizationist": Benjamin Coates and black uplift in the United States and Africa -- 7. "Our elevation must be the result of self-efforts, and work of our own hands": Martin R. Delany and the role of self-help and emigration in black uplift -- 8. "Maybe the devil has got to come out of these people before we will have peace": assessing the successes and failures of Pennsylvania's competing antislavery agendas

Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-290) and index.