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- catalog abstract ""...Some eleven hundred black Americans-men, women, and children; some slave, some freedmen, some freeborn; most from Maryland-did emigrate to Cape Palmas between 1833 and 1856...They went to Africa for precisely the same reasons that inspired the westward movement of European settlers across North America: cheap or free land, economic opportunity, the chance to live, think, and worship in freedom, and the prospect that succeeding generations wuld have better lives. Moreover, settlers of Maryland In Liberia had a sense that they must prove a point to the rest of the world-that they could live and prosper as well as any other community. On Afric's Shore records their efforts do just that." -- Introd.".
- catalog contributor b13217550.
- catalog contributor b13217551.
- catalog coverage "Liberia History 1847-1944.".
- catalog coverage "Liberia History To 1847.".
- catalog created "c2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "c2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
- catalog description ""...Some eleven hundred black Americans-men, women, and children; some slave, some freedmen, some freeborn; most from Maryland-did emigrate to Cape Palmas between 1833 and 1856...They went to Africa for precisely the same reasons that inspired the westward movement of European settlers across North America: cheap or free land, economic opportunity, the chance to live, think, and worship in freedom, and the prospect that succeeding generations wuld have better lives. Moreover, settlers of Maryland In Liberia had a sense that they must prove a point to the rest of the world-that they could live and prosper as well as any other community. On Afric's Shore records their efforts do just that." -- Introd.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 610-618) and index.".
- catalog extent "xxiii, 644 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0938420860 (alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0938420879 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "c2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Baltimore : Maryland Historical Society,".
- catalog spatial "Liberia History 1847-1944.".
- catalog spatial "Liberia History To 1847.".
- catalog spatial "Liberia.".
- catalog spatial "Maryland".
- catalog subject "346.82/086 21".
- catalog subject "African Americans Colonization Liberia.".
- catalog subject "African Americans Maryland History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "DT633 .H35 2003".
- catalog subject "Maryland State Colonization Society.".
- catalog title "On Afric's shore : a history of Maryland in Liberia, 1834-1857 / Richard L. Hall.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "Maryland (Liberia) swd".
- catalog type "text".