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In the years before the Civil War, a number of communities were founded by free African Americans, with the aim of establishing vocational and academic training and political and economic independence. This book tells the stories of these utopian experiments in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, southwestern Ontario, and elsewhere, including Frances Wright's Nashoba, the Port Royal settlement in Carolina, and the Canadian communities founded by William King, Hiram Wilson, and Josiah Henson. Distributed for the Wisconsin Historical Society PressPease, William H. is the author of 'Black Utopia Negro Communal Experiments in America' with ISBN 9780870200663 and ISBN 0870200666.
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