아프리카 식민운동의 이데올로기적 기원과 1830년대 정치적 노예제폐지반대론(Political Anti-Abolitionism)의 수용

The Ideological Origins of the African Colonization Movement and Its Adoption of Political Anti-Abolitionism in the 1830s

This study is an attempt to call into question the revisionist approach on the African Colonization Movement. According to the revisionists, although negrophobia and fear of racial mixing were central to the colonization movement, it nonetheless sought black emancipation. However, the “antislavery” colonization movement exhibited its ideological regression at the moment it was realized as the American Colonization Society. After the emergence of the radical abolitionist movement in the 1830s, especially, the society was no longer an “antislavery” alternative. Rather, it spearheaded a proslavery campaign for the oppression and destruction of the radical abolitionist movement in the North, as apparent in the regression of the Ohio African Colonization Society. The more serious problem was that, from the beginning, the colonization was a part of national efforts to construct a whiteman’s republic. The colonization was a sort of bait, disguising the fact that it was vigorously a racist ideology of hatred and exclusion.