The Price of Liberty : African Americans and the Making of Liberia /

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In the first book to examine closely both the American background and the post-migration lives of a substantial number of Liberian emigrants, Clegg focuses on the experiences of over 2,000 black North Carolinians who traded the racial crisis in North Carolina for a new set of challenges facing them...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Clegg, Claude A., III (Claude Andrew)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Freiheit
African Americans > Colonization.
African Americans.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
HISTORY > General.
Noirs americains > Caroline du Nord > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Noirs americains > Colonisation > Liberia.
African Americans > North Carolina > History > 19th century.
African Americans > Colonization > Liberia.
Schwarze.
USA.
Liberia
North Carolina.
Liberia.
Liberia > Histoire > 1847-1944.
Liberia > Histoire > Jusqu'à 1847.
Liberia > History > 1847-1944.
Liberia > History > To 1847.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:In the first book to examine closely both the American background and the post-migration lives of a substantial number of Liberian emigrants, Clegg focuses on the experiences of over 2,000 black North Carolinians who traded the racial crisis in North Carolina for a new set of challenges facing them in Liberia. He aims to advance the current state of knowledge regarding black life and culture in the Atlantic world.
Physical Description:1 online resource (344 pages): illustrations, maps
ISBN:9781469605500

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