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The Price of Liberty: African Americans and the Making of Liberia
Claude Andrew Clegg
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Description for The Price of Liberty: African Americans and the Making of Liberia
Paperback. In 19th-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. This text is an examination of the American and African sides of this experience; an important chapter in the historical evolution of the Atlantic world. Num Pages: 424 pages, 37 illustrations, 4 tables, 4 maps, 7 figures. BIC Classification: 1HFDL; HBJH; HBLL; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 147 x 21. Weight in Grams: 456.
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 between 1825 and 1893. By examining both the American and African sides of this experience, Clegg produces a textured account of an important chapter in the historical evolution ... Read more
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 between 1825 and 1893. By examining both the American and African sides of this experience, Clegg produces a textured account of an important chapter in the historical evolution ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9780807855164
SKU
V9780807855164
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About Claude Andrew Clegg
Claude A. Clegg III is associate professor of history at Indiana University at Bloomington. He is author of An Original Man: The Life and Times of Elljah Muhammad.
Reviews for The Price of Liberty: African Americans and the Making of Liberia
"This is a brilliant and fascinating account that has filled in many gaps.... The narrative has a deep human quality, depicting the real predicament that the option of colonization posed for black people. This book will definitely illuminate the Liberia story and enliven an important period of American history.... There is a lot that Liberians can learn from this work ... Read more