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

Abstract

Beverly Tomek's Colonization and Its Discontents is an important contribution to a growing scholarship on the African colonization movement. Although focused on a single state, Tomek examines the complex relationship between colonization and other branches of the abolitionist movement more thoroughly than any previous historian. As Tomek shows, "Pennsylvania offers an excellent lens through which to view the changes that took place within the American antislavery community" between the American Revolution and the Civil War.