An African republic : Black & White Virginians in the making of Liberia

An African republic : Black & White Virginians in the making of Liberia / Marie Tyler-McGraw.

An African Republic follows the experiences of the emigrants from Virginia to Liberia, where some became the leadership class, consciously seeking to demonstrate black abilities, while others found greater hardship and early death. Tyler-McGraw carefully examines the tensions between racial identiti...

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Main Author: Tyler-McGraw, Marie
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2007.
Series:John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
Subjects:
American Colonization Society > History.
American Colonization Society
To 1944
African Americans > Colonization > Liberia.
African Americans > Virginia > History > 19th century.
Free African Americans > Virginia > History > 19th century.
White people > Virginia > History > 19th century.
HISTORY > Africa > West.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
African Americans
African Americans > Colonization
Emigration and immigration
Free African Americans
Race relations
White people
Umsiedlung
Politieke onafhankelijkheid.
Liberia > History > To 1847.
Liberia > History > 1847-1944.
Liberia > Emigration and immigration > History > 19th century.
Virginia > Emigration and immigration > History > 19th century.
Virginia > Race relations > History > 19th century.
Liberia
Virginia
Liberia.
Virginia.
History
Online Access:Click for online access
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Summary:An African Republic follows the experiences of the emigrants from Virginia to Liberia, where some became the leadership class, consciously seeking to demonstrate black abilities, while others found greater hardship and early death. Tyler-McGraw carefully examines the tensions between racial identities, domestic visions, and republican citizenship in Virginia and Liberia. --from publisher description.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xi, 249 pages) : illustrations, map
Format: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.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-232) and index.
ISBN:9780807867785
0807867780
9781469604718
146960471X
Language:English.
Reproduction Note:Electronic reproduction.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.
Action Note:digitized

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