Foreword / Stanley Harrold and Randall M. Miller
Introduction: the past, present, and future of colonization studies / Beverly C. Tomek
Reconsidering the missionary dimensions of colonization
Race, sympathy, and missionary sensibility in the New England colonization movement / Gayle L. Kenny
"The heathen are demanding the gospel": conversion, redemption, and African colonization / Ben Wright
"He be God who made dis man": Christianity and conversion in nineteenth-century Liberia / Andrew N. Wegmann
"Teaching them to observe all things": African American women, the great commission, and Liberia in the nineteenth century / Debra Newman Ham
Reconsidering the political and diplomatic dimensions of colonization
The American Colonization Society's not-so-private colonization project / David F. Ericson
James Monroe and the practicalities of emancipation and colonization / Daniel Preston
The Missouri crisis and the "changed object" of the American Colonization Society / Nicholas P. Wood
Situating African colonization within the history of U.s. expansion / Brandon Mills
Experiments in colonial citizenship in Sierra Leone and Liberia / Bronwen Everill
The American Colonization Society and the Civil War / Sebastian N. Page
Redirecting the field and offering new answers to old questions
The Cape Mesurado contract: a reconsideration / Eric Burin
"A desire to better their condition": European immigration, African colonization, and the lure of consensual emancipation / Andrew Diemer
The end of emancipation street: "civilization," race, and cartography in colonial Liberia / Robert Murray
Rewriting their own history; or, the many Paul Cuffes / Matthew J. Hetrick
The changing legacy of Civil War colonization / Phillip W. Magness
Rethinking colonization in the early United States / Nicholas Guyatt.