The Price of Liberty
African Americans and the Making of Liberia
Claude Andrew Clegg III
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 09/2009
Pages: 344
Subject: Social Science, History
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Print ISBN: 9.78E+12
eBook ISBN: 9780807895580
DESCRIPTION
For almost a century, Liberian emigration connected African Americans to the broader cultures, commerce, communication networks, and epidemiological patterns of the Afro-Atlantic region. But for many individuals, dreams of a Pan-African utopia in Liberia were tempered by complicated relationships with the Africans, whom they dispossessed of land. Liberia soon became a politically unstable mix of newcomers, indigenous peoples, and "recaptured" Africans from westbound slave ships. Ultimately, Clegg argues, in the process of forging the world's second black-ruled republic, the emigrants constructed a settler society marred by many of the same exclusionary, oppressive characteristics common to modern colonial regimes.
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