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 ...
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Membership certificate to the American Colonization Society

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American Colonization Society

The American Colonization Society, founded in 1816 to assist free black people in emigrating to Africa, was the brainchild of the Reverend Robert Finley, a Presbyterian minister from Basking Ridge, ...
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Massachusetts elected officials cast vote on Liberian solidarity

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – Springfield City Councilor Malo Brown will hold a vote to stand in solidarity with Liberians living in the U.S. Brown is also calling on the Trump Administration to stop ...
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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 ...