By Claude Andrew Clegg III
ISBN-10: 0807828459
ISBN-13: 9780807828458
ISBN-10: 0807855162
ISBN-13: 9780807855164
For nearly a century, Liberian emigration attached African americans to the wider cultures, trade, communique networks, and epidemiological styles of the Afro-Atlantic area. yet for plenty of members, desires of a Pan-African utopia in Liberia have been tempered by way of advanced relationships with the Africans, whom they dispossessed of land. Liberia quickly turned a politically volatile mixture of novices, indigenous peoples, and "recaptured" Africans from westbound slave ships. finally, Clegg argues, within the means of forging the world's moment black-ruled republic, the emigrants built a settler society marred through a number of the comparable exclusionary, oppressive features universal to fashionable colonial regimes.
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