num_pages: 240
description: "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 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
language: English
title: Slavery and the Peculiar Solution: A History of the American Colonization Society
publisher: University Press of Florida