Douma | The Colonization of Freed African Americans in Suriname: Archival Sources Relating to the U.S. Dutch Negotiations, 1860-1866 | Buch | 978-90-8728-325-4 | www.sack.de

Buch, Englisch, 300 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Douma

The Colonization of Freed African Americans in Suriname: Archival Sources Relating to the U.S. Dutch Negotiations, 1860-1866


Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-8728-325-4
Verlag: LEIDEN UNIV PR

Buch, Englisch, 300 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

ISBN: 978-90-8728-325-4
Verlag: LEIDEN UNIV PR

During the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln’s administration engaged in protracted negotiations with representatives of the Netherlands to aid in the voluntarily colonization of free African Americans to Suriname. Scores of diplomatic letters in Dutch, English, and French, dating to the period 1862 to 1866 attest to the very real possibility that such migration stream could have become a reality. They also indicate reasons why this scheme failed: it was bogged down by differences of opinion, mail delays, and ultimately a reluctance of any African Americans to migrate. Previously unpublished and unknown, these letters have been transcribed and translated here for the first time. The sources provide a rare look inside the minds of liberal government officials during the age of emancipation in the Atlantic World. They demonstrate the officials’ humanitarian concerns, their racial prejudices, respect for legal order and process, and faith in governments to solve international problems.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Douma, Michael J.

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" Table of Contents Part I IntroductTable of Contents

Part I

Introduction and a Note on the Translations

Colonization in U.S. Politics and Society

Suriname in Dutch Colonial History

Global Context of Post-emancipation Emancipation Labor

The Dutch Diplomatic Network

Racial Thinking

The Translated Documents

Register of Persons

Americans

The Dutch Diplomatic Network in the United States

Diplomats in the Netherlands

Part II

Locations of Archival Material

List of Primary Sources

Sources

Acknowledgements

Bibliography

Index

Douma, Michael J.
Michael J. Douma is an Assistant Research Professor at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University, where he is also affiliate faculty in the history department. He has published widely on the history of the Dutch in the United States, and is working on a history of Dutch-speaking slavery in New York and New Jersey.

Michael J. Douma is an assistant research professor at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University, where he is also affiliate faculty in the history department. He has published widely on the history of the Dutch in the United States, and is working on a history of Dutch-speaking slavery in New York and New Jersey.

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