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An African Republic: Black and White Virginians in the Making of Liberia (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture) by Marie Tyler-McGraw is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is An African Republic: Black and White Virginians in the Making of Liberia (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture) about?
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, who supported African colonization and why? No state was more involved with the project than Virginia, where white Virginians provided much of the political and organizational leadership and black Virginians provided a majority of the emigrants. In __An African Republic__, Marie Tyler-McGraw traces the parallel but seldom intersecting tracks of black and white Virginians' interests in African colonization, from revolutionary-era efforts at emancipation legislation to African American churches' concern for African missions. In Virginia, African colonization attracted aging revolutionaries, republican mothers and their daughters, bondpersons schooled and emancipated for Liberia, evangelical planters and merchants, urban free blacks, opportunistic politicians, Quakers, and gentlemen novelists. __An African Republic__ follows the experiences of the emigrants from Virginia to Liberia, where
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- Author
- Marie Tyler-McGraw
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press; University of North Carolina Press
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781469604718
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Science, Humanities
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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