Capitalism and Cities in the Black Atlantic or What does African colonization have to do with capitalism?
Definitions: Capitalism Cities Black Atlantic Colonization
African Slave Trade
African American Colonization nad Identity, Why those dates? Free Black Communities Colonization – Nationalism – Freedom/Slavery – Equality/Opportunity – Slavery/Abolition – Imperialism (Benevolent or otherwise)
Richard Allen and Paul Cuffe
Mother Bethel, African Methodist Episcopal Church
American Colonization Society (ACS) Many antecedents Split from the beginning – Slave owners v. Gradual abolitionists Migration factors?
West Africa
Liberia
ACS sponsored settlers in Liberia 1820s s s s s s s s240
Martin Delany and Frederick Douglass
Liberians and Natives
Letter from Liberian Secretary of State to the French Representative “It is in the power of the French government to aid us in acquiring and controlling this rich interior country, for which consideration special concessions would be made to her merchants and citizens that would prove profitable to France and beneficial to Liberia. There is no doubt that Liberia being composed of Africans, and with a little aid from France [could] do more toward securing a permanent hold upon the interior trade of western Africa, than any foreign nation. What England, France, and Germany acquire expensive naval and military force to accomplish, we can effect by Race sympathies and Race interests.”
Marcus Garvey and W. E. B. DuBois
African Colonization Why are cities and capitalism important to this story? What can this story tell us about cities and capitalism?