The Americans, by an American
The Unionist 1833-09-05
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This book, The Americans, by an American in London, by Calvin Colton (1789-1857), can be found in a [Hathitrust digitization.] (https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=yale.39002007679153&view=1up&seq=7&q1=american%20colonization%20society) It is unlikely that Burleigh had read it, as it contains support for the American Colonization Society, which he would not have endorsed. In this 1833 book, Colton sees both the impracticality of the American Colonization Society's project, and the evil of slavery, but still thinks that the Colonization Society is a benevolent organization that is gradually raising consciousness around the issue of slavery. When he returned to the United States in 1835, though, he became a strident anti-abolitionist, even writing a piece titled Abolition, a Sedition in 1839. For a full length scholarly article on Colton, see James D. Bratt, “From Revivalism to Anti-Revivalism to Whig Politics: The Strange Career of Calvin Colton.” The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, vol. 52, no. 1, 2001, pp. 63–82.
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