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Author Tyler-McGraw, Marie.

Title An African republic : Black & White Virginians in the making of Liberia / Marie Tyler-McGraw.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2007]
©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 249 pages) : illustrations, map.
text file
Series The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-232) and index.
Contents A small frisson of fear, soon soothed -- The alchemy of colonization -- Auxiliary arms -- Ho, all ye that are by the pale-faces' law oppressed: out of Virginia -- My old mistress promise me -- Revising the future in Virginia -- Virginians in Liberia -- Liberians in Africa and America -- Civil War to white city.
Summary An African Republic follows the experiences of the emigrants from Virginia to Liberia, where some became the leadership class, consciously seeking to demonstrate black abilities, while others found greater hardship and early death. Tyler-McGraw carefully examines the tensions between racial identities, domestic visions, and republican citizenship in Virginia and Liberia. --from publisher description.
Access Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
Processing Action digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL
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Subject American Colonization Society -- History.
American Colonization Society.
History.
American Colonization Society -- History.
American Colonization Society.
African Americans -- Colonization -- Liberia.
African Americans -- Colonization.
Liberia.
Liberia -- History -- To 1847.
Chronological Term To 1847
Subject Liberia -- History -- 1847-1944.
Chronological Term 1847-1944
Subject African Americans -- Virginia -- History -- 19th century.
African Americans.
Virginia.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Free African Americans -- Virginia -- History -- 19th century.
Free African Americans.
White people -- Virginia -- History -- 19th century.
White people.
Liberia -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 19th century.
Emigration and immigration.
Virginia -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 19th century.
Virginia -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.
Race relations.
Chronological Term To 1944
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books -- Electronic books -- History.
History.
Added Title Black and White Virginians in the making of Liberia
Other Form: Print version: Tyler-McGraw, Marie. African republic. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2007 (DLC) 2007014848 (OCoLC)123390926
ISBN 9780807867785 (electronic book)
0807867780 (electronic book)
9781469604718 (electronic book)
146960471X (electronic book)
9780807831670 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0807831670 (cloth ; alkaline paper)