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- catalog abstract "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 between 1825 and 1893. By examining both the American and African sides of this experience, Clegg produces a textured account of an important chapter in the historical evolution of the Atlantic world. For almost a century, Liberian emigration connected African Americans to the broader cultures, commerce, communication networks, and epidemiological patterns of the Afro-Atlantic region. But for many individuals, dreams of a Pan-African utopia in Liberia were tempered by complicated relationships with the Africans, whom they dispossessed of land. Liberia soon became a politically unstable mix of newcomers, indigenous peoples, and "recaptured" Africans from westbound slave ships. Ultimately, Clegg argues, in the process of forging the world's second black-ruled republic, the emigrants constructed a settler society marred by many of the same exclusionary, oppressive characteristics common to modern colonial regimes.".
- catalog contributor b13232407.
- catalog coverage "Liberia History 1847-1944.".
- catalog coverage "Liberia History To 1847.".
- catalog created "2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2004.".
- catalog description "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 between 1825 and 1893. By examining both the American and African sides of this experience, Clegg produces a textured account of an important chapter in the historical evolution of the Atlantic world. For almost a century, Liberian emigration connected African Americans to the broader cultures, commerce, communication networks, and epidemiological patterns of the Afro-Atlantic region. But for many individuals, dreams of a Pan-African utopia in Liberia were tempered by complicated relationships with the Africans, whom they dispossessed of land. Liberia soon became a politically unstable mix of newcomers, indigenous peoples, and "recaptured" Africans from westbound slave ships. Ultimately, Clegg argues, in the process of forging the world's second black-ruled republic, the emigrants constructed a settler society marred by many of the same exclusionary, oppressive characteristics common to modern colonial regimes.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-322) and index.".
- catalog description "Origins -- Between slavery and freedom -- The first wave -- Inventing Liberia -- The price of liberty -- Emigration renaissance -- To live and die in Liberia -- The last wave -- Everything is upside down.".
- catalog extent "xii, 330 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Price of liberty.".
- catalog identifier "0807828459 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0807855162 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Price of liberty.".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press,".
- catalog relation "Price of liberty.".
- catalog spatial "Liberia History 1847-1944.".
- catalog spatial "Liberia History To 1847.".
- catalog spatial "Liberia.".
- catalog spatial "North Carolina".
- catalog subject "966.62/01 22".
- catalog subject "African Americans Colonization Liberia.".
- catalog subject "African Americans North Carolina History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "DT633 .C58 2004".
- catalog tableOfContents "Origins -- Between slavery and freedom -- The first wave -- Inventing Liberia -- The price of liberty -- Emigration renaissance -- To live and die in Liberia -- The last wave -- Everything is upside down.".
- catalog title "The price of liberty : African Americans and the making of Liberia / Claude A. Clegg III.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".