The Price of Liberty African Americans and the Making of Liberia / Claude A. Clegg III.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clegg, Claude A., III (Claude Andrew)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--North Carolina--History--19th century.

African Americans.

African Americans--Colonization--Liberia.

Liberia--History--1847-1944.

Liberia.

Liberia--History--To 1847.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (345 p.)

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2014

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the first book to examine closely both the American background and the post-migration lives of a substantial number of Liberian emigrants, Clegg focuses on the experiences of over 2,000 black North Carolinians who traded the racial crisis in North Carolina for a new set of challenges facing them in Liberia. He aims to advance the current state of knowledge regarding black life and culture in the Atlantic world.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; One. Origins; Two. Between Slavery and Freedom; Three. The First Wave; Four. Inventing Liberia; A section of illustrations; Five. The Price of Liberty; Six. Emigration Renaissance; Seven. To Live and Die in Liberia; Eight. The Last Wave; Epilogue: Everything Is Upside Down; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-322) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

979-88-908779-5-6

1-4696-0550-3

0-8078-9558-X

OCLC:

701719793