Ebook: Another America: the story of Liberia and the former slaves who ruled it
- Tags: Afro-amerikaner, Internationella relationer, African Americans--Colonization--Liberia, African Americans--Colonization, International relations, History, Biography, American Colonization Society, African Americans -- Colonization -- Liberia, Liberia -- History, Liberia -- Relations -- United States, United States -- Relations -- Liberia, African Americans -- Colonization, Liberia, United States, Liberia -- historia, Förenta staterna
- Year: 2013
- Publisher: Farrar Straus and Giroux
- City: New York;Förenta staterna;Liberia;United States
- Edition: 1st ed
- Language: English
- epub
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 republic -- in 1847.;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 -- Epilogue.
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