Não diga que não somos brancos: projects of colonization for African-Americans of Lincoln\'s government in the perspective of the Caribbean, Latin America and Brazil in 1860

Author(s)

Maria Clara Sales Carneiro Sampaio

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD)
• Defense date: 2014-02-05

Examining board members

Maria Helena Pereira Toledo Machado; Wlamyra Ribeiro de Albuquerque; Monica Duarte Dantas; Flavio dos Santos Gomes; Lilia Katri Moritz Schwarcz

• Advisor: Maria Helena Pereira Toledo Machado

Abstract

In the early years of its Civil War, the United States Government proposed to resettle African- Americans throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. Though these schemes did not ultimately come to fruition, the intentions of the United States and the responses of negotiating nations reflected broader debates on slavery, race, nation building and indenture labor in the post abolition era. These colonization projects, as they were then called, aimed to resettle African-Americans in countries such as Brazil, Ecuador, present-day Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, Jamaica, present-day Belize, British Guiana, Surinam, St. Croix Island, Haiti and Liberia. (AU)