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Slavery and the Peculiar Solution: A History of the American Colonization Society
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Slavery and the Peculiar Solution: A History of the American Colonization Society * Eric Burin * Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2005 * xiv, 224 pp. * $59.95
In a recent contribution to the series Southern Dissent, edited by Stanley Harrold and Randall M. Miller and published by the University Press of Florida, Eric Burin has written a wonderful study of the American Colonization Society (ACS). The subtitle of the work, "A History of the American Colonization Society," is a b...
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