Research Catalog

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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Details

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

• African Americans > Colonization > Liberia
• American Colonization Society
• Liberia > History
• Liberia > Relations > United States
• United States > Relations > Liberia

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