Separation
Separation
Ohio and Kentucky and especially their two leading cities—Cincinnati and Louisville—illuminate the power of racism in nineteenth-century American history. Both Cincinnati and Louisville were the sites of extraordinary racial violence in the three decades before the Civil War. Black Cincinnatians endured a number of horrific riots before 1850, and black Louisvillians suffered enslavement and lynching. In consequence, some white and black Americans began to imagine separate racial destinies. This chapter describes the colonization movements in Ohio and Kentucky while also detailing fierce black opposition to removal outside of the United States. The chapter further considers black separatism and plans for emigration from the United States in consequence of the experience of a harsh racism.
Keywords: Racism, Colonization, Riots, Enlightenment, Black Laws, Slavery, Slave trade, Fugitive slaves, Henry Bibb, Lynching
North Carolina Scholarship Online requires a subscription or purchase to access the full text of books within the service. Public users can however freely search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter.
Please, subscribe or login to access full text content.
If you think you should have access to this title, please contact your librarian.
To troubleshoot, please check our FAQs , and if you can't find the answer there, please contact us .
