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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Bibliographic Details
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
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Table of Contents:
  • A small frisson of fear, soon soothed
  • The alchemy of colonization
  • Auxiliary arms
  • Ho, all ye that are by the pale-faces' law oppressed: out of Virginia
  • My old mistress promise me
  • Revising the future in Virginia
  • Virginians in Liberia
  • Liberians in Africa and America
  • Civil War to white city.

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