An African Republic: Black and White Virginians in the Making of Liberia (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)

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The nineteenth-century American Colonization Society (ACS) project of persuading all American free blacks to emigrate to the ACS colony of Liberia may just never be accomplished. Few free blacks volunteered, and larger numbers would have overwhelmed the meager resources of the ACS. For the reason that reality, who supported African colonization and why? No state used to be 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 a few changed into the leadership class, consciously in search of to demonstrate black skills, even as others found greater hardship and early death. Tyler-McGraw moderately examines the tensions between racial identities, domestic visions, and republican citizenship in Virginia and Liberia.

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