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Another America: The Story of Liberia and the Former Slaves Who R

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Another America: The Story of Liberia and the Former Slaves Who R - Ciment, James
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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 ...

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Another America: The Story of Liberia and the Former Slaves Who R 2014, Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl, New York

ISBN-13: 9780809026951

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