Another America: The Story of Liberia and the Former Slaves Who Ruled It: The Story of Liberia and the Former Slaves Who Ruled It

by James D. Ciment

Book Overview

The first popular history of the former American slaves who founded, ruled, and lost Africa's first republic 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809095424
• ISBN13: 9780809095421
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Hill & Wang
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 9.7"