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    527. THE CAMPAIGN TO REPATRIATE FREE BLACKS TO AFRICA

    527. THE CAMPAIGN TO REPATRIATE FREE BLACKS TO AFRICA

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    Willie Hiatt

    Formed in 1816, the American Colonization Society advocated the removal of freeborn and emancipated slaves to Africa. With a membership of abolitionists and slavers, the ACS rested on paternalistic and deeply racist ideology. The ostensible claim that blacks would never be accepted as citizens served to absolve white Americans of the responsibility of integrating them into the young nation. Even President Lincoln espoused colonization. The majority of black Americans, including Frederick Douglass, viewed colonization with deep disdain. This is the first of two stand-alone talks on black history.

     

    10:00-12 noon

    1 Session 

    Thursday, January 29

    Fee:  $30 

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    About the lecturer(s)

    Willie Hiatt

    Willie Hiatt, a Kentucky native, is an Associate Professor of History at Long Island University, Post Campus, and a former Society for the Humanities Fellow at Cornell University (2019-20). He’s the author of The Rarified Air of the Modern: Airplanes and Technological Modernity in the Andes (Oxford, 2016). His current research is an oral history project examining how Maoist insurgents in Peru targeted high-tension towers during the Shining Path movement (1980-92).

    Lecture Details

    Program
    Winter/Spring 2026
    Sessions
    1 lecture(s)
    Day & Time
    Thursday, 10:00 AM-12:00 PM
    Date(s)
    Jan 29, 2026