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Settler colonialism is also resettlement: Beverly C. Tomek, ‘Resettlement and Forced Removal in the Making of the American Republic’, Pennsylvania History, 91, 3, 2024, pp. 393-398

23Aug24

Excerpt: As the study of African American recolonization expands, historians are beginning to look more closely at the relationship between the forced removal of Native Americans through the process of “Indian removal” and the voluntary recolonization of Black Americans, primarily to Africa. The obvious question of why one group came to face forced removal while the other did not is a complex one that has yet to be thoroughly answered. Two recent studies, however, have added considerably to the discussion. Brandon Mills’s The World Colonization Made and Samantha Seeley’s Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain explore connections between the two initiatives and put them together into the broader context of race and mobility in the early United States.


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