{"product_id":"9780813032733","title":"Slavery and the Peculiar Solution : A History of the American Colonization Society (Southern Dissent)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Every historian working on colonization will want to read and engage this provocative history of the experience of African colonization for the manumitted, the manumitters, and their proslavery critics.\"--American Historical Review \"One of the most insightful treatments of colonization in years.\"--Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography \"Balanced, accessible, and thorough. Each of Burin's chapters explores the ACS from a specific perspective: ACS members who manumitted enslaved workers specifically to go to Liberia, the enslaved themselves, northern fundraisers, white southerners, legal authorities, and finally, the freedpeople in Liberia.\"--Journal of African American History \"Presents a vivid portrait of the organization as a conduit through which several thousand African Americans passed from American slavery to African freedom.\"--Journal of American History \"Conveys the image of chattel slavery not as a monolithic structure controlling all masters and slaves everywhere but as a constantly changing entity throbbing with painful issues of personal and private rights in conflict with predominant opinions about social cohesion and custom. . . . The result is a refreshingly complex picture of American slavery.\"--History \"A meticulously researched biography of one of the oft-overlooked cul-de-sacs in American history.\"--Virginia Quarterly Review\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University Press of Florida","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49114055803107,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0764\/3758\/6147\/files\/9780813032733-1.jpg?v=1788354845","url":"https:\/\/usa.kinokuniya.com\/ja\/products\/9780813032733","provider":"Books Kinokuniya USA","version":"1.0","type":"link"}