Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. xx, 296 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map, ports.; 24 cm.

Summary

1. In 1820, a group of about eighty African Americans reversed the course of history and sailed back to Africa, to a place they would name after liberty itself. They went under the banner of the American Colonization Society, a white philanthropic organization with a dual agenda: to rid America of its blacks, and to convert Africans to Christianity. The settlers staked out a beachhead; their numbers grew as more boats arrived; and after breaking free from their white overseers, they founded Liberia-- Africa's first black republic-- in 1847.

Subject

1. American Colonization Society
2. African Americans -- Colonization -- Liberia
3. Liberia -- History
4. Liberia -- Relations -- United States.
5. United States -- Relations -- Liberia.

Genre/Form

1. History

Contents

1. The black Mayflower -- Original sin -- First families and fresh graves -- Africa's lone star -- A matter of color -- The African banquet -- Conquering hero -- The slave ring -- The original African big man -- Father and son.

Owning institution

1. Harvard Library

Language

1. English

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-278) and index.

Processing action (note)

1. committed to retain