An Inquiry Into The Merits Of The American Colonization Society And A Reply To The Charges Brought Against It With An Account Of The British African Colon

Thomas Hodgkin was a prominent British physician and historian who devoted much of his life to the abolitionist cause. In this book Hodgkin defends the American Colonization Society an organization dedicated to the resettlement of freed slaves in Africa against charges of racism and imperialism. Hodgkin also provides an account of the British African Colonization Society which sought to achieve similar ends in West Africa.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and