Religion Dispatches

‘American Primeval’ Doesn’t Try to Get the History Right — Problem is, it Doesn’t Get Western Colonization Right, Either

American Primeval, Netflix’s flashy (and quite gory) new series depicts the clash between zealous Mormons, imperial federal troops, crude trappers, and bloodthirsty Natives. Think Under the Banner of ...
Press-Republican

Champlain native set up 'Little America' on Africa's west coast

The American Colonization Society received $100,000 by the U.S. government in 1819 to underwrite the resettlement of formerly ...
The Nation

America Has Done Mass Deportation Before

From the Indian Removal Act of 1830 to the deportation of Mexican Americans during the Great Depression, Trump can easily find precedents for his policy. None of them ended well. Among Donald Trump’s ...
insider.si.edu

Against wind and tide : the African American struggle against the colonization movement / Ousmane K. Power-Greene

"The means of alleviating the suffering": Haitian emigration and the colonization movement, 1817-1830 -- "One of the wildest projects ever": abolitionists and the ...
insider.si.edu

Membership certificate to the American Colonization Society

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