The Price of Liberty: African Americans and the Making of Liberia

by Claude Andrew Clegg III

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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 government and the American Colonization Society in 1822. In The Price of Liberty, Claude Clegg accounts for 2,030 North Carolina blacks who left the state and took up residence in Liberia...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0807855162

ISBN13:9780807855164

Release Date:April 2004

Publisher:University of North Carolina Press

Length:344 Pages

Weight:1.05 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.1" x 9.3"

Related Subjects

19th Century Africa African-American Studies History Liberia Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences Specific Demographics State & Local Textbooks

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