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Another America : the story of Liberia and the former slaves who ruled it / James Ciment.
- Title
- Another America : the story of Liberia and the former slaves who ruled it / James Ciment.
- Author
- Ciment, James.
- Publication
- New York : Hill and Wang, 2013.
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- Description
- xx, 296 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map, ports.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- 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. The settlers staked out a beachhead; their numbers grew as more boats arrived; and after breaking free from their white overseers, they founded Liberia-- Africa's first black republic-- in 1847.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-278) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The black Mayflower -- Original sin -- First families and fresh graves -- Africa's lone star -- A matter of color -- The African banquet -- Conquering hero -- The slave ring -- The original African big man -- Father and son.
- ISBN
- 9780809095421 :
- 0809095424
- LCCN
- ^^2012051089
- OCLC
- 812068768
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library