The Price of Liberty: African Americans and the Making of Liberia

by Claude Andrew Clegg III

Book Overview

In nineteenth-century America, the belief that blacks and whites could not live in social harmony and political equality in the same country led to a movement to relocate African Americans to Liberia, a West African colony established by the United States government and the American Colonization Society in 1822. In The Price of Liberty, Claude Clegg accounts for 2,030 North Carolina blacks who left the state and took up residence in Liberia...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807855162
• ISBN13: 9780807855164
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.3"