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Another America
First published 2013
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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.
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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.
Source: Open Library
Book information
- Author
- James Ciment
- First published
- 2013
- Publisher
- Hill and Wang
- Language
- ENG
- ISBN-13
- 9780809095421