Another America : the story of Liberia and the former slaves who ruled it /
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...
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New York :
Hill and Wang,
2013.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of 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.