The Price of Liberty: African Americans and the Making of LiberiaUniv of North Carolina Press, 2004 - 330 Seiten In nineteenth-century America, the belief that blacks and whites could not live in social harmony and political equality in the same country led to a movement to relocate African Americans to Liberia, a West African colony established by the United States |
Inhalt
Acknowledgments | |
Introduction | 1 |
Origins | 7 |
Between Slavery and Freedom | 29 |
The First Wave | 53 |
Inventing Liberia | 77 |
The Price of Liberty | 129 |
Emigration Renaissance | 163 |
To Live and Die in Liberia | 201 |
The Last Wave | 249 |
Everything Is Upside Down | 271 |
Notes | 275 |
Bibliography | 305 |
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The Price of Liberty: African Americans and the Making of Liberia Claude Andrew Clegg III Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2009 |
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abolitionism ACS officials ACS secretary ACS's African Americans African Repository agent American Colonization Society American immigrants Annual Report arrived Arthington Ashmun auxiliary black North Carolinians Bladen bondage bondpeople Brewerville Caldwell Cape Capehart colonists colonization movement colonizationists cultural death December dollars emancipation emigrant rolls enslaved expedition female free African Americans free blacks Friends Guilford County Haiti History Hooper hundred indigenous January John John McPhail Joseph Gales July land letter liberated Louis Sheridan Lugenbeel malaria malarial mortality male Manumission Manumission Society Maryland McKay Mesurado Millsburg missionaries Monrovia NCER Negro Norfolk North Car North Carolina North Carolina Emigrants Northampton County November October organization Pasquotank County Paul Cuffe Paul's River percent Perquimans political population president Quakers R. R. Gurley RACS Raleigh recaptives reel reprinted in African republic Roll of Emigrants September settlement ship slaveholders slavery tion town U.S. Congress U.S. Senate United Virginia William Coppinger William McLain
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