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Title:Sojourners in search of freedom: the settlement of Liberia by Black Americans
Author:Smith, James Wesley
Year:1987
Pages:228
Language:English
City of publisher:Lanham, MD
Publisher:University Press of America
ISBN:0819157872
Geographic term:Liberia
Subjects:colonists
freedmen
Abstract:Between 1820 and the coming of the Civil War, about ten thousand free blacks and newly emancipated slaves set sail from America for the colony of Liberia, seeking freedom and enjoyment of rights and privileges denied them in the USA. The work recapitulates that human drama. The author has tried to give appropriate emphasis to the events of the period without exaggerating what actually happened. Thus, a chronological arrangement determines the pattern of the book. App.: Tables of immigrants from each State (1820-1847), their occupations and their education.