The Price of Liberty: African Americans and the Making of LiberiaUniv of North Carolina Press, 2004 - 330 páginas 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 |
Contenido
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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Otras ediciones - Ver todas
The Price of Liberty: African Americans and the Making of Liberia Claude Andrew Clegg III Vista previa limitada - 2009 |
The Price of Liberty: African Americans and the Making of Liberia Claude Andrew Clegg Vista de fragmentos - 2004 |
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