To "Plant Our Trees on American Soil, and Repose Beneath their Shade": Africa, Colonization, and the Evolution of a Black Identity Narrative in the United States, 1808-1861
This work explores the role that ideas about Africa played in the development of a specifically American identity among free blacks in the United States, from the early nineteenth century to the Civil War. Previous studies of the writings of free blacks in the Revolutionary period, and of the Americ...
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Scholar Commons
2015
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| Online Access: | http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6045 http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=7241&context=etd |