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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780979703321

Autore

Tyler-McGraw Marie

Titolo

An African republic [[electronic resource] ] : Black & White Virginians in the making of Liberia / / Marie Tyler-McGraw

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2007

ISBN

0-8078-6778-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (264 p.)

Collana

The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture

Classificazione

15.80

Disciplina

966.62/004960730767

Soggetti

African Americans - Colonization - Liberia

African Americans - Virginia - History - 19th century

Free African Americans - Virginia - History - 19th century

White people - Virginia - History - 19th century

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-232) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

The nineteenth-century American Colonization Society (ACS) project of persuading all American free blacks to emigrate to the ACS colony of Liberia could never be accomplished. Few free blacks volunteered, and greater numbers would have overwhelmed the meager resources of the ACS. Given that reality, who supported African colonization and why? No state was more involved with the project than Virginia, where white Virginians provided much of the political and organizational leadership and black Virginians provided a majority of the emigrants.In An African Republic, Marie Tyler-McG