Black Utopia: Negro Communal Experiments in America

by William H. Pease, Jane H. Pease

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 Press

Genres: History

204 pages, Paperback

First published December 15, 1963

Reviews

[Kimberly · Rating 5 out of 5]

I never knew that there was an attempt at organized black communities prior to the Civil War and that there was a migration to Canada because in Canada they were free.

[ػᶈᶏϾӗ]

This was really interesting and an easy read.

[Joanna]

Reflective of the early 60s, when it was written, important for linking to other historical sources.