Pious White Reformers and Race, Then and Now
…he Ohio. And the fact that very few free blacks were ultimately settled in Liberia—despite the enormous prestige and influence of the American Colonization Society—has mainly to do with the failure of large-scale emancipation to actually materialize in view of the rapidly escalating value of slave labor following the introduction of the cotton gin at the start of the 19th century. Guyatt simply takes it as a given that a huge proportion of the wou…
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