Colonization after emancipation: Lincoln and the movement for black resettlement

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"Colonization after Emancipation reveals an unexplored chapter of the Emancipation story. A valuable contribution to Lincoln studies and Civil War history, this book unearths the facts about an ill-fated project and illuminates just how complex, even convoluted, Abraham Lincoln's ideas about the end of slavery really were"--Jacket flap.;The curious politics of colonization -- American freedmen, British labor -- Mr. Lincoln's hobby -- The contrabands question -- This most desirable country -- A self-supporting scheme -- Secretary Seward and the Dutch treaty -- Administrative dysfunction, congressional displeasure -- The indefatigable James Mitchell -- Colonization repudiated, colonization revived? -- Colonization after emancipation. The curious politics of colonization -- American freedmen, British labor -- Mr. Lincoln's hobby -- The contrabands question -- This most desirable country -- A self-supporting scheme -- Secretary Seward and the Dutch treaty -- Administrative dysfunction, congressional displeasure -- The indefatigable James Mitchell -- Colonization repudiated, colonization revived? -- Colonization after emancipation.