From the Classroom to the American Colonization Society: Making Race at Rutgers
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Chapitre de livre
Auteurs/contributeurs
- Adams, Beatrice (Auteur)
- Johnson, Tracey (Auteur)
- Manuel, Daniel (Auteur)
- Wierda, Meagan (Auteur)
- Fuentes, Marisa J. (Éditeur)
- White, Deborah Gray (Éditeur)
Titre
From the Classroom to the American Colonization Society: Making Race at Rutgers
Résumé
“Citizens of New-Jersey,” exhorted Theodore Frelinghuysen, a fellow New Jerseyan, at an 1824 meeting of the state’s colonization society, “—we appeal to you—survey your cultivated fields—your comfortable habitations—your children rising around you to bless you. Who, under Providence, caused those hills to rejoice, and those vallies to smile?—who ploughed those fields and cleared those forests?” His answer may have come as a surprise to some, as he demanded that his audience “remember the toil and the tears of black men, and pay [their] debt to Africa.”¹ According to Frelinghuysen, the people of New Jersey owed
Titre du livre
Scarlet and Black, Volume One: Slavery and Dispossession in Rutgers History
Lieu
New Brunswick
Maison d’édition
Rutgers University Press
Date
2016
Pages
123-149
Langue
Anglais
ISBN
978-0-8135-9152-0
Titre abrégé
From the Classroom to the American Colonization Society
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22/01/2024 15:30
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Référence
Adams, Beatrice, Tracey Johnson, Daniel Manuel, et Meagan Wierda. « From the Classroom to the American Colonization Society: Making Race at Rutgers ». Dans Scarlet and Black, Volume One: Slavery and Dispossession in Rutgers History, sous la direction de Marisa J. Fuentes et Deborah Gray White, 123‑49. New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2016. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1k3s9r0.10.
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