The Price of Liberty - Couverture souple

Clegg III, Claude Andrew

 
9780807855164: The Price of Liberty
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0807855162 ISBN 13 : 9780807855164
Editeur : The University of North Carolina Press, 2004

Synopsis

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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À propos de l?auteur

Claude A. Clegg III is associate professor of history at Indiana University at Bloomington. He is author of An Original Man: The Life and Times of Elijah Muhammad.

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Éditeur
The University of North Carolina Press
Date d'édition
2004
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0807855162
ISBN 13 
9780807855164
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
344
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780807828458: The Price of Liberty: African Americans and the Making of Liberia

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0807828459 ISBN 13 :  9780807828458
Editeur : The University of North Carolina..., 2004
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