03152nam 2200613 a 450 991078097970332120220208161059.00-8078-6778-0(CKB)2520000000007780(EBL)880448(OCoLC)608104572(Au-PeEL)EBL880448(CaPaEBR)ebr10355398(CaONFJC)MIL929491(MiAaPQ)EBC880448(EXLCZ)99252000000000778020070416d2007 ub 0engur|n|---|||||An African republic[electronic resource] Black & White Virginians in the making of Liberia /Marie Tyler-McGrawChapel Hill University of North Carolina Pressc20071 online resource (264 p.)The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and cultureDescription based upon print version of record.1-4696-1518-5 0-8078-3167-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-232) and index.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.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-McGJohn Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.Black and White Virginians in the making of LiberiaAfrican AmericansColonizationLiberiaAfrican AmericansVirginiaHistory19th centuryFree African AmericansVirginiaHistory19th centuryWhite peopleVirginiaHistory19th centuryLiberiaHistoryTo 1847LiberiaHistory1847-1944LiberiaEmigration and immigrationHistory19th centuryVirginiaEmigration and immigrationHistory19th centuryVirginiaRace relationsHistory19th centuryAfrican AmericansColonizationAfrican AmericansHistoryFree African AmericansHistoryWhite peopleHistory966.62/00496073076715.80bclTyler-McGraw Marie1473515MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910780979703321An African republic3686709UNINA