Burin, Eric: Slavery and the Peculiar Solution: A History of the American Colonization Society.(Book Review)

From: History: Review of New Books | Date: September 22, 2005| Author: Sumner-Mack, Nan | Copyright information

Burin, Eric Slavery and the Peculiar Solution: A History of the American Colonization Society Gainesville: University Press of Florida 240 pp., $59.95, ISBN 0-8130-2841-8 Publication Date: August 2005

When is slavery preferable to freedom? For many slaves during the antebellum period, the answer was when freedom meant shipment to Liberia. Burin (PHD, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1998, and currently assistant professor of history at the University of North Da...

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