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Chapter 3 - Departure and Debate: Free Black Emigration to Canada and Mexico

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2021

Elena K. Abbott
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In the early 1830s, the U.S. anti-slavery movement was undergoing a profound radicalization as white anti-slavery proponents like William Lloyd Garrison joined black activists to demand the immediate, uncompensated emancipation of all slaves. This chapter illuminates the influence that two international free-soil havens had on the anti-slavery movement during this decade: Canada and Mexico. Following in the footsteps of newspaper editor Benjamin Lundy, it brings to life the critical debates that unfolded in the anti-slavery press about what meaningful freedom should look like for free African Americans and former slaves – and where they could go to find it.

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Benjamin LundyWilberforce SettlementAfrican Americans in CanadaAfrican Americans in Mexicoradical abolitionism
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Beacons of Liberty
International Free Soil and the Fight for Racial Justice in Antebellum America
 , pp. 77 - 99
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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