African Republic, An: Black & White Virginians in the Making of Liberia
The nineteenth-century American Colonization Society (ACS) project of persuading all American free blacks to emigrate to the ACS colony of Liberia could never be accomplished. Few free blacks volunteered, and greater numbers would have overwhelmed the mea
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| Interest Age |
All ages |
| Reading Age |
All ages |
| NBS Text |
Popular Culture & Media: General Interest |
| ONIX Text |
General/trade |
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| Number of Pages |
492 |
| Dimensions |
Width: 197mm
Height: 254mm
Spine: 28mm |
| Weight |
948g |
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| Dewey Code |
966.62004960 |
| Catalogue Code |
207727 |
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The nineteenth-century American Colonization Society (ACS) project of persuading all American free blacks to emigrate to the ACS colony of Liberia could never be accomplished. Few free blacks volunteered, and greater numbers would have overwhelmed the meager resources of the ACS. Given that reality, who supported African colonization and why? No state was more involved with the project than Virginia, where white Virginians provided much of the political and organizational leadership and black Virginians provided a majority of the emigrants. In An African Republic, Marie Tyler-McGraw traces the parallel but seldom intersecting tracks of black and white Virginians' interests in African colonization, from revolutionary-era efforts at emancipation legislation to African American churches' concern for African missions. In Virginia, African colonization attracted aging revolutionaries, republican mothers and their daughters, bondpersons schooled and emancipated for Liberia, evangelical planters and merchants, urban
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