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I think we need to include and discuss recent works addressing the issues included in this paragraph too. It is good for all of us. Cheers, [[User:Dennishidalgo|Historiador]] ([[User talk:Dennishidalgo|talk]]) 07:25, 28 November 2015 (UTC) |
I think we need to include and discuss recent works addressing the issues included in this paragraph too. It is good for all of us. Cheers, [[User:Dennishidalgo|Historiador]] ([[User talk:Dennishidalgo|talk]]) 07:25, 28 November 2015 (UTC) |
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== General cleanup of the article == |
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Over the last week or so, I've added citations to '''Origins''', '''Preparation of colony''', '''Motives''', '''Fundraising''', '''African Repository Journal''', and '''Dissolution'''. I had to reword the information on the '''African Repository Journal''', '''Fundraising''', and '''Preparation of colony''' because the information in all three sections was directly plagiarized from the Library of Congress web exhibit on colonization. |
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Under '''First colony''', I found all of the same exact information on a personal webpage from [http://personal.denison.edu/~waite/liberia/history/acs.htm Denison Unversity], but unfortunately the person did not reference any of their information and I can't find any sources to back their writing up. It is the only source I've found that mentions anything about the first settlers dying of yellow fever and the ship ''''Nautilus''''. That same Denison source is used for '''Expansion and growth of the colony''', but again, I've found nothing to back this information up. I didn't want to delete either section because I'm sure the information is out there somewhere. |
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Under '''Civil War and emancipation''', historians Stephen B. Oates and Michael Lind are referenced to follow Lincoln's changing stance on colonization, but their specific works are not listed. Does anyone know which specific works are being talked about in this section? |
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Overall, I just attempted to find accessible sources for the uncited sections and reworded blatantly plagiarized sections. I took one part of the introduction and inserted part of into '''Colonization as a solution to the problem of free blacks''' and into '''Paul Cuffee'''. I know wikipedia recommended cutting down the introduction and I felt the introduction paragraph on Cuffee worked better in the actual Paul Cuffee section. Obviously if anyone disagrees with this larger edit, feel free to revert it back to the original! [[User:Cait1017|Cait1017]] ([[User talk:Cait1017|talk]]) 22:42, 8 December 2015 (UTC) |
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Neither Here Nor There
In the external links, why is there the excess backstory about the Institute for Historical Review? Without disputing the facts of what is being said about them, what exactly does their position on the Holocaust have to do with the price of eggs in this case? It's totally irrelevant to the topic at hand, not to mention the content linked to, and probably has no place in this entry.
Besides which, if we're going to make it standard wikipedia practice to mention every time someone links to an article on the internet by an author or group called anti-semitic by somebody or other, we're going to need to do a major revision of 90% of the external links.
January 16th, 2005, 11:53 A.M. GMT.
Corrections made to the article include the name of the man who founded the organization, Robert Finley, (not Robert Finlay).
References to "black Americans" were changed to the accurate term, which is "free Negroes," who were not Americans since they could not vote.
The National Colonization Society of America was founded in 1816. Some free Negroes had departed the United States voluntarily prior to 1816, which indicates that the United States was a hotbed of racial hatred in the quarter-century from 1790-1815. It is possible that an earlier Colonization Society called the American Colonization Society existed prior to 1816. Sierre Leone was created in Africa some two to four decades before Liberia was created.
The references to "blacks" should be removed. Free Negroes were called "colored" in the census reports of 1790, 1800, 1810, 1820, etc.
It is likely that the article still contains some statements which are either far-fetched or untrue.
- What is the new word for what one used to called "American women" who were not Americans since they could not vote? We count on everyone to actively improve any statements which are either far-fetched or untrue. --Wetman 19:16, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)
How many encyclopedia articles about Shakespeare use only the language of his time?--JimWae 18:49, 2005 Jan 16 (UTC)
I have access to a big, fat encyclopedia that states that James Madison (but not James Monroe) was one of the Presidents of the National Colonization Society. President Washington's nephew, Bushrod Washington was a President at one time (and the owner of Mount Vernon, George Washington's mansion).
The copyright laws of the United states have been extended from the original 14 years to 95 years, today. It is illegal for Americans to utilize copyrighted items in great detail. The "Fair Use" provision of the law offers a little bit of protection.
The big, fat encyclopedia will be made available in the next ten years by Google which is making copies of numerous books. I have already employed the big, fat encyclopedia as the source of the name and the information about Robert Finley, sketchily. I hope that I haven't exceeded the "Fair Use" rule.
By the way, white women were Americans because the head of the family voted for himself, his wife, and his children.
There is a big difference between being deported (by force) and being transported (voluntarily) away.
January 17th, 2005 10:13 P.M. GMT
It is too complex
The subject of establishing free Negroes in some other place is too complex for a Wikipedia article. Books were written about the subject in the 19th century. Some men devoted much of their lives to the effort.
EXAMPLE; The nation's most radical Abolitionist, William Lloyd Garrison (1805-79), was an advocate of immediate emancipation on the soil (freed slaves would remain here). Garrison's friend, Benjamin Lundy (1789-1839), favored the colonization of freed slaves to places such as Haiti and Mexico. In 1838, a mob burned Pennsylvania Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, destroying nearly all of his possessions. The action of that mob proved that many despisers of colonization existed in 1838, when the President of the United States was a Pro-slavery Democrat named Martin Van Buren, of the State of New York.
A big, fat encyclopedia could be written on the subject.
It all boils down to the following sentences. In the Roman Empire, Romans allowed the existence of an Imperium in imperio which is "a power within a power" or ""an empire within an empire" or "a state within a state," but the American empire builders scorned that notion. U.S. President Abraham Lincoln claimed that the United States was a "tree that should not have a crows' nest in it."
2:22 A.M. GMT January 27th, 2005
Original research moved to talk - source needed
Taken in the context of the previous quotes, Lincoln, ever the master diplomat, may have been seeking to placate the emancipated slave population with this overture while he waited for General Butler to report back to him on the feasibility of colonization. Regardless of the intent of Lincoln's proclamtion, like the issue of slavery, he knew that his suggestions could either be accepted or rejected by the States and as such he respected their sovereignty by leaving the issue of suffrage ultimately up to them, as was the case in his instructions for the reconstruction of the State of Louisiana.
Ugh
The usages of multiple new terms such as "free blacks" and "African Americans" ruined the article. The people were called Free Negroes. Also, slaveowners remarked that Negroes were "docile" and that white men were "hostile" and not suited to slavery. "Indigent whites" is a novel expression. White men could purchase 80 acres of land in Ohio for one hundred dollars. Land in Ohio sold for a dollar and a quarter per acre, thus 400 acres (161.9 hectares) of land in Ohio costed 500 dollars. I had never heard of "indigent whites" in the United States until after Wikipedia was invented. Distortions of historical truths are placed in Wikipedia every day. "Indigent whites" appears to be a creation by a mythifier.HeyYallYo 02:12, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
Are you saying there weren't any poor white people in the United States at that time? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.61.76.170 (talk) 19:52, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
12 years old Wikipedians
Keep it in mind that a term such as "indigent whites" may be the creation of a 12-years-old individual. Wikipedia does not prevent 12 years old Wikipedians from contributing their thoughts.HeyYallYo 11:04, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
Last section reads like a high school persuasive writing assignment
This "assessment" only has one source citation to support incredibly sweeping claims about the effectiveness of the American Colonization Society which MUST be supported by facts. Also, the last paragraph should be deleted because it's far too editorialized for an enclyclopedia article, i.e. "America, not Africa, was their home and they had little desire to migrate to a strange and forbidding land to achieve someone else's dream." Save that for a 9th grade persuasive writing assignment, not for a fair encyclopedia article for the world to see.
Ethnic cleansing
It is fairly clear to me that the ACS was something that would be called an ethnic cleansing organization today. I think that it would be fair to name it so descriptively (but not pejoratively). There seems to be an awful lot of historical sensitivity to the ACS, up to and beyond the point where such sensitivity blends over into whitewash. I don't think that whitewash is ever NPOV. TMLutas (talk) 20:29, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
- The phrase "Ethnic Cleansing" is always used pejoratively these days-- you can't use it otherwise. Especially when it has connotations of genocide. You may disagree with the motives of the ACS from the viewpoint of today's values, but I don't think the phrase does them justice. They didn't think amalgamation would work and that whites' attitudes would hold back those of African descent for the foreseeable future. Who is to say they were wrong, unfortunately?PhilD86 (talk) 07:43, 6 February 2013 (UTC)
Version 0.7
I can accept the importance of the topic, but this article has too many cleanup tags and negative Talk page comments to be usable for Version 0.7. If it can be cleaned up to B, with the cleanup/POV issues addressed, it would be a good choice for the next release. Thanks, Walkerma (talk) 07:53, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
PBS documentary
There's a PBS documentary that disagrees with key dates in this article. PBS documentary Simesa (talk) 07:58, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
Copyright problem
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More on State Societies?
I'd like to have more mention of the State colonization societies. I think the article alludes to the different motives behind the movement; these separate societies reflected that.
In the North, the ACS would seem to be the refuge of the "moderate" abolitionist. I think of Harriet Beecher Stowe in Uncle Tom's Cabin, or Joseph Tracy, historian and secretary of the Massachusetts society, who admitted to the rightness of immediate abolition and inherent Negro equality, but feared the possibility of violent societal upheaval and Negro unpreparedness if sudden absolute freedom were attained.
Also, there was an additional motive for some of the more religious-minded-- the possibility of using the freedman to act as a base for Christian missionary activity in Africa. This would become more important after emancipation as it became evident that a mass emigration would not occur.
Unfortunately, I am not conversant enough on the subject to know if I'm just talking through my hat. I'm just not that satisfied with the article. The ACS is a great example of an ostensibly powerful idea supported by competent, well-meaning people that fizzled out. I'd like to know more on why it failed. It may seem obvious now, but it wasn't so obvious then.PhilD86 (talk) 07:43, 6 February 2013 (UTC)
Debate: few slaveowners? Randolph silenced?
There is a revisionist/ scholarly debate going on at this time with this topic, which means that assertions of any kind should be backed, not by what a scholar says, but by evidence. And when an issue is in contention, it should be mention as such. The best practice calls for even citing the names of those who make the claim, and to include, always, the other side.
I want to invite a discussion on this issue before I submit a change to the article. I content the use of the word "few" to indicate the amount of slaveowners members of the ACS. That they were not the majority is not what I am claiming, but their numbers were not few either. Moreover, the ACS had a long live and it changed in nature and composition. When is it few and when is not it should be also mentioned. There is a long scholarly tradition supporting my statement.
Moreover, in this article Randolph is mentioned as voicing the idea for eliminating the Black population in the U.S. and quickly pushed aside as unimportant. Doing so is to ignore the main trait of this organization: its double voice. The evidence for the ACS' intention of seeing the Black population is so large and obvious that this article is risking appearing as the pet project of a few ideologists. I invite those with an interest on this article to voice your ideas. Thanks Historian (talk) 20:21, 27 May 2014 (UTC)
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I am concerned about deleting content from the article without discussing it here or without rewriting it. This is not fair to those who have been working on this article for some time (which is not me; I only contributed minimally). The following paragraph was recently deleted and even when there are some prose issues with it, and I am not a fan of this new tendency in historiography, I still see it has some merits:
"Although Randolph believed that the removal of free blacks would "materially tend to secure" slave property, the vast majority of early members were philanthropists, clergy, and abolitionists who wanted to free African slaves and their descendants and provide them with the opportunity to "return" to Africa. Few members were slave-owners, and the Society never enjoyed much support among planters in the Lower South. This was the area that developed most rapidly in the 19th century with slave labor, and initially it had few free blacks, who lived mostly in the Upper South."
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I think we need to include and discuss recent works addressing the issues included in this paragraph too. It is good for all of us. Cheers, Historiador (talk) 07:25, 28 November 2015 (UTC)
General cleanup of the article
Over the last week or so, I've added citations to Origins, Preparation of colony, Motives, Fundraising, African Repository Journal, and Dissolution. I had to reword the information on the African Repository Journal, Fundraising, and Preparation of colony because the information in all three sections was directly plagiarized from the Library of Congress web exhibit on colonization.
Under First colony, I found all of the same exact information on a personal webpage from Denison Unversity, but unfortunately the person did not reference any of their information and I can't find any sources to back their writing up. It is the only source I've found that mentions anything about the first settlers dying of yellow fever and the ship 'Nautilus'. That same Denison source is used for Expansion and growth of the colony, but again, I've found nothing to back this information up. I didn't want to delete either section because I'm sure the information is out there somewhere. Under Civil War and emancipation, historians Stephen B. Oates and Michael Lind are referenced to follow Lincoln's changing stance on colonization, but their specific works are not listed. Does anyone know which specific works are being talked about in this section?
Overall, I just attempted to find accessible sources for the uncited sections and reworded blatantly plagiarized sections. I took one part of the introduction and inserted part of into Colonization as a solution to the problem of free blacks and into Paul Cuffee. I know wikipedia recommended cutting down the introduction and I felt the introduction paragraph on Cuffee worked better in the actual Paul Cuffee section. Obviously if anyone disagrees with this larger edit, feel free to revert it back to the original! Cait1017 (talk) 22:42, 8 December 2015 (UTC)