"Grounded in stellar research, and written with passion and clarity, 'Words Colliding' gives voice to the Black Americans who pushed not only for the end of slavery but for their place in the body politic."
—Justene Hill Edwards, University of Virginia

"Hammann’s panoramic study helps us to see the corrosive effects of removal thinking both before and after the Civil War, while establishing African American resistance as the critical factor in ensuring colonization’s defeat."
—@nicholasguyatt.bsky.social, Jesus College, Cambridge

"Provides a long-arc of this history – one that shows continuity and change within various expatriation initiatives on the federal and state level and how this ideology is central to the emergence of Jim Crow in the South by the end of the century."
—Ousmane K. Power-Greene, Clark University

"With remarkable research and bold historical imagination, Andrew Hammann has recast our understanding of a desperate debate waged across generations of American history: the place of Black Americans in the United States."
—Edward L. Ayers

"A major contribution to early American cultural history. This book reconstructs the lost language of 'political astronomy,' showing how Americans discerned deeper meanings in darker skies, deploying solar and stellar metaphors to make sense of their world."

- Peter S. Onuf, University of Virginia

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"In dark times, this book will inspire everyone who cares—and all should—to carry forward Ben Ferencz’s vital work: for law to stop war."
—John Q. Barrett, St. John's University

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