Title Journey of hope : the Back-to-Africa movement in Arkansas in the late 1800s / Kenneth C. Barnes

Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 268 pages) : illustrations, maps Series The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture. Contents The Liberia Exodus Arkansas Colony, 1877-1880 -- A Movement Ebbs and Flows: The 1880s -- Hope Ignites: Liberia Fever, 1888-1891 -- Gaw'n t' 'Beria: The Crisis of 1892 -- Troublemakers -- Missions -- The Meaning of Africa -- The Last Voyages -- In Liberia Summary Kenneth C. Barnes explains why so many black Arkansas sharecroppers dreamed of Africa and how their dreams of Liberia differed from the reality. This narrative also examines the role of poor black farmers in the creation of a black nationalist identity and the importance of the symbolism of an ancestral continent Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-258) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject American Colonization Society -- History SUBJECT American Colonization Society fast Subject African Americans -- Colonization -- Liberia African Americans -- Arkansas -- History -- 19th century Sharecroppers -- Arkansas -- History -- 19th century Black nationalism -- History -- 19th century HISTORY. African Americans African Americans -- Colonization Black nationalism Emigration and immigration Sharecroppers Rückkehr SUBJECT Liberia -- History -- 1847-1944. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85076457 Liberia -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 19th century Arkansas -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 19th century Subject Arkansas Liberia Afrika Arkansas Schwärze Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2003027748 ISBN 0807876224 9780807876220 9780807828793 0807828793 9780807855508 0807855502

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