The first comprehensive, comparative account of nineteenth-century America's efforts to resettle African Americans outside the United States.

This new edition adds nearly 600 entirely new topics, replaces some 150 obsolete entries, and also provides substantial revisions to hundreds more. Every one of

"These superb essays illuminate the fascinating process of absorbing West Indian immigrants into New York City's multicultural but racially divided social fabri

The story of West Indian immigrants to the United States is generally considered to be a great success. Mary Waters, however, tells a very different story. She