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

by Marie Tyler-McGraw

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469615185
• ISBN13: 9781469615189
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"