Title The price of liberty : African Americans and the making of Liberia / Claude A. Clegg III

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

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 330 pages) : illustrations, maps Contents Origins -- Between slavery and freedom -- The first wave -- Inventing Liberia -- The price of liberty -- Emigration renaissance -- To live and die in Liberia -- The last wave -- Everything is upside down Summary In the first book to examine closely both the American background and the post-migration lives of a substantial number of Liberian emigrants, Clegg focuses on the experiences of over 2,000 black North Carolinians who traded the racial crisis in North Carolina for a new set of challenges facing them in Liberia. He aims to advance the current state of knowledge regarding black life and culture in the Atlantic world Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-322) 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 digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject African Americans -- Colonization -- Liberia African Americans -- North Carolina -- History -- 19th century HISTORY -- General. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies. African Americans African Americans -- Colonization Freiheit SUBJECT Liberia -- History -- To 1847. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85076456 Liberia -- History -- 1847-1944. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85076457 Subject Liberia North Carolina Liberia USA Schwärze Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780807895580 080789558X 9781469605500 1469605503

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