An African Republic : Black and White Virginians in the Making of Liberia /

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: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2007.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
American Colonization Society
American Colonization Society.
American Colonization Society > History.
Politieke onafhankelijkheid.
Umsiedlung
White people.
Race relations.
Free African Americans.
Emigration and immigration.
African Americans > Colonization.
African Americans.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
HISTORY > Africa > West.
Blancs > Virginie > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Noirs americains affranchis > Virginie > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Noirs americains > Virginie > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Noirs americains > Colonisation > Liberia.
White people > Virginia > History > 19th century.
Free African Americans > Virginia > History > 19th century.
African Americans > Virginia > History > 19th century.
African Americans > Colonization > Liberia.
Virginia.
Liberia.
Liberia
Virginie > Relations raciales > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Virginie > Émigration et immigration > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Liberia > Histoire > 1847-1944.
Liberia > Histoire > Jusqu'à 1847.
Virginia > Race relations > History > 19th century.
Virginia > Emigration and immigration > History > 19th century.
Liberia > Emigration and immigration > History > 19th century.
Liberia > History > 1847-1944.
Liberia > History > To 1847.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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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