| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.5

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Eric Burin. Slavery and the Peculiar Solution: A History of the American Colonization Society. (Southern Dissent.) Gainesville: University Press of Florida. 2005. Pp. xiv, 223. $59.95.

Historians of race, slavery, and gender have recently revived interest in the colonization reform movement in an effort to understand the broad swath of ideas that antebellum Americans embraced to address the moral dilemmas and political conundrums of slavery in the republic. Eric Burin's compact study of the consequences of colonization society manumissions among slaves and southern slaveholders adds immensely to this growing literature. Burin did not intend to write a comprehensive history of African colonization. Hence, readers will find few new insights about the reformers who established or financed colonization societies, or about the relationship of colonization to national antislavery politics. For those questions, historians must still rely on a forty-five-year-old monograph by P. J. Staudenraus, The African Colonization Movement, 1816–1865 (1961).

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