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Colonization and Its Discontents
Colonization and Its Discontents
Emancipation, Emigration, and Antislavery in Antebellum Pennsylvania
By Beverly C. Tomek

From The NYU Press
Pennsylvania contained the largest concentration of early America's abolitionist leaders and organizations, making it a necessary and illustrative stage from which to understand how national conversations about the place of free blacks in early America originated and evolved, and, importantly, the role that colonization - supporting the emigration of free and emancipated blacks to Africa - played in national and international antislavery movements.   More >>

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Cultivating Regionalism
Cultivating Regionalism
Higher Education and the Making of the American Midwest
By Kenneth Wheeler

From The Northern Illinois University Press

In this ambitious book, Kenneth Wheeler revises our understanding of the nineteenth-century American Midwest by reconsidering an institution that was pivotal in its making -- the small college. During the antebellum decades, Americans built a remarkable number of colleges in the Midwest that would help cultivate their regional identity. Through higher education, the values of people living north and west of the Ohio River formed the basis of a new Midwestern culture.

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