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Synopsis
In the years before the Civil War, a number of communities were founded by free African Americans, with the aim of establishing vocational and academic training and political and economic independence. This book tells the stories of these utopian experiments in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, southwestern Ontario, and elsewhere, including Frances Wright’s Nashoba, the Port Royal settlement in Carolina, and the Canadian communities founded by William King, Hiram Wilson, and Josiah Henson.
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Review
“Exhaustively researched, thoroughly documented, and exceedingly well-written, this volume is an illuminating study of a neglected but important facet of American reform movements and Negro life in the antebellum period.”—August Meier, New Politics
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