The price of liberty : African Americans and the making of Liberia / Claude A. Clegg III.

By:

Clegg, Claude Andrew

Publication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2004.Description: xii, 330 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cmISBN:

0807828459 (cloth : alk. paper)
0807855162 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

966.62/01 22

LOC classification:

DT633 .C58 2004

Contents:

Ch.1. Origins -- Ch.2. Between Slavery and Freedom -- Ch.3. The First Wave -- Ch.4. Inventing Liberia -- Ch.5. The Price of Liberty -- Ch.6. Emigration Renaissance -- Ch.7. To Live and Die in Liberia -- Ch.8. The Last Wave -- Epilogue: Everything Is Upside Down.

Summary: Publisher 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.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	NMC Library	Stacks	DT633 .C58 2004 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		33039000727858

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

Publisher 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.

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