1. Capitalism and Cities in the Black Atlantic or What does African colonization have to do with capitalism?

2. Definitions: Capitalism Cities Black Atlantic Colonization

3. African Slave Trade

4. African American Colonization nad Identity, 1780-1925 Why those dates? Free Black Communities Colonization – Nationalism – Freedom/Slavery – Equality/Opportunity – Slavery/Abolition – Imperialism (Benevolent or otherwise)

5. Richard Allen and Paul Cuffe

6. Mother Bethel, African Methodist Episcopal Church

7. American Colonization Society (ACS) 1816-1964 Many antecedents Split from the beginning – Slave owners v. Gradual abolitionists Migration factors?

8. West Africa

9. Liberia

10. ACS sponsored settlers in Liberia 1820s1259 1830s3214 1840s2206 1850s4957 1860s2909 1870s984 1880s1756 1890s240

14. Martin Delany and Frederick Douglass

17. Liberians and Natives

18. 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.”

21. Marcus Garvey and W. E. B. DuBois

23. African Colonization 1780-1925 Why are cities and capitalism important to this story? What can this story tell us about cities and capitalism?