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Liberty Brought Us Here : The True Story of American Slaves Who Migrated to Liberia /
Between 1820 and 1913, thousands of black people left the United States to start new lives in Liberia, Africa, in what was at the time the largest out-migration in US history. When Tolbert Major, a Kentucky slave and single father, was offered his own chance for freedom, he accepted. He, several fam...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington :
The University Press of Kentucky,
2020
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| 505 | 0 | |a May I But Safely Reach My Home -- Slavery and the Troublesome Question -- People of Culture and Refinement -- Serious Doubts on the Slavery Question -- The Scene of Suffering and Misery Is Beyond Description -- We Have All Landed on the Shores of Africa -- Bowing the Knee to Slavery -- We Are All Needy -- We Have Had War with the Natives -- My Heart Yet Bleeds -- We Stand in Great Need of Seed -- Affectionately, Your Friend and Brother -- The Dark Clouds Begin to Disappear -- I Cannot Banish the Horrid Picture -- I Will Send You Some Coffee -- The Accursed Thing Slavery -- Decidedly Antislavery -- I Have Been in the Legislature -- I Am Nothing but a Plain Christian -- I Want to See You and Your Wife and Children Very Bad -- The Love of Liberty Brought Us Here -- Men of Advanced Views on the Subject of Education -- I Am a Free Man in a Free Country -- Send Me Some Carpenter Tools (and Bonnets) -- We Have Not Lived in Vain -- He Was Killed by Those Barbarous People -- I Thirst to Meet You in Bright Glory -- Conclusion : Under the Vine and Fig Tree. | |
| 520 | |a Between 1820 and 1913, thousands of black people left the United States to start new lives in Liberia, Africa, in what was at the time the largest out-migration in US history. When Tolbert Major, a Kentucky slave and single father, was offered his own chance for freedom, he accepted. He, several family members, and almost seventy other people boarded the Luna on July 5, 1836. After they arrived in Liberia, Tolbert penned a letter to his former owner, Ben Major: "Dear Sir, We have all landed on the shores of Africa and got into our houses. ... None of us have been taken with the fever yet." Drawing on extensive research and fifteen years' worth of surviving letters, the author illuminates the trials and triumphs of building a new life in Liberia, where settlers were free, but struggled to acclimate in an unfamiliar land, coexist with indigenous groups, and overcome disease and other dangers. This book explores the motives and attitudes of colonization supporters and those who lived in the colony, offering perspectives beyond the standard narrative that colonization was solely about racism or forced exile. -- |c Provided by publisher | ||
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