Black and White Virginians in the Making of Liberia
by
Marie Tyler-McGraw
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
The nineteenth-century American Colonization Society (ACS) project of persuading all American free blacks to emigrate to the ACS colony of Liberia could never be accomplished. Few free blacks volunteered, and greater numbers would have overwhelmed the meager resources of the ACS. Given that reality,...