NORTHERN COLONIZATIONISTS AND FREE BLACKS, 1823-1837: A CASE STUDY OF LEONARD BACON. |
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Davis, Hugh
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1/1/97
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Journal
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Journal of the Early Republic
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17(4)p.651-675
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African American
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Leonard Bacon, a key proponent of African-American colonization in the 1820 s and 1830 s, has been misunderstood by historians. He held highly complex and, at times, contradictorynotions about African Americans and their future in the United States. He also held very complex views about the causes of free-black poverty, white racism, and the role that colonizationshould play. A racist himself, and highly class conscious toward the white working class, Bacon at times could ally himself with abolitionists and blacks about the environmental causes ofAfrican-American poverty. At other times, he could side with white supremacists who merely blamed the condition of African Americans on cultural and racial inferiority. Bacon, in otherwords, should be studied on his own terms, as a study in human contradictions, mixed motivations, and intellectual complexity
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