Abolitionists abroad : American Blacks and the making of modern West Africa / Lamin Sanneh. PRINT

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The historical significance of Olaudah Equiano -- Antislavery and black loyalists in the American Revolution -- The black poor in London -- The Sierra Leone Resettlement Plan -- Antislavery and early colonization in America -- Thomas Peters: moving antislavery to Africa -- Freedom and the evangelical convergence -- Upsetting the natural order -- New light religion: pushing at the boundaries -- Antislavery and antistructure -- David George -- Moses Wilkinson -- The Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion -- Paul Cuffee -- The voluntarist impulse -- Christianity and antinomianism -- Sir Charles MacCarthy: Christendom revisited -- Recaptives and.

the new society -- The example of Samuel Ajayi Crowther -- The strange career of John Ezzidio -- Change in the old order -- Recaptives and the new middle class: brokers or collaborators? -- Thomas Jefferson Bowen and the manifest middle class -- Crowther and the Niger expedition -- The Niger mission resumed -- Antislavery and its new friends -- The native pastorate and its nemesis -- Martin Delany: anatomy of a cause -- Debacle -- Reaction and resistance -- Colonization sentiments -- Commercial motives: purse and principle -- The humanitarian motive and the evangelical impulse -- Colonization without empire: America's spiritual kingdom -- Colonization before antislavery: mission of inquiry -- African resettlement: fact and fiction -- The founding of Liberia: privatization of public responsibility -- Lott Carey and Liberia -- Expansion and exclusion -- Black ideology.