Liberty Brought Us Here
Title | Liberty Brought Us Here PDF eBook |
Author | Susan E. Lindsey |
Publisher | University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | 280 |
Release | 2020-07-21 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 081317936X |
Between 1820 and 1913, approximately 16,000 black people left the United States to start new lives in Liberia, Africa, in what was at the time the largest out-migration in US history. When Tolbert Major, a former Kentucky slave and single father, was offered his own chance for freedom, he accepted. He, several family members, and seventy other people boarded the Luna on July 5, 1836. After they arrived in Liberia, Tolbert penned a letter to his former owner, Ben Major: "Dear Sir, We have all landed on the shores of Africa and got into our houses.... None of us have been taken with the fever yet." Drawing on extensive research and fifteen years' worth of surviving letters, author Susan E. Lindsey illuminates the trials and triumphs of building a new life in Liberia, where settlers were free, but struggled to acclimate themselves to an unfamiliar land, coexist with indigenous groups, and overcome disease and other dangers. Liberty Brought Us Here: The True Story of American Slaves Who Migrated to Liberia explores the motives and attitudes of colonization supporters and those who lived in the colony, offering perspectives beyond the standard narrative that colonization was driven solely by racism or forced exile.
"The Love of Liberty Has Brought Us Here"
Title | "The Love of Liberty Has Brought Us Here" PDF eBook |
Author | Dalila Scruggs |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 674 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | African Americans |
ISBN |
The Love of Liberty Brought Us Here
Title | The Love of Liberty Brought Us Here PDF eBook |
Author | J. H. Gay |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 6 |
Release | 1974 |
Genre | Liberia |
ISBN |
Negro Nation
Title | Negro Nation PDF eBook |
Author | Cyrus GRAY, Jr. |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 2016-12-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781532328671 |
The Love of Liberty Met Us Here
Title | The Love of Liberty Met Us Here PDF eBook |
Author | Alexander Tarlue |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2023-04-20 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
The Love of Liberty Met Us Here by: Alexander Tarlue
The African Repository and Colonial Journal
Title | The African Repository and Colonial Journal PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 792 |
Release | 1967 |
Genre | African Americans |
ISBN |
Liberia
Title | Liberia PDF eBook |
Author | Harry Hamilton Johnston |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 600 |
Release | 1906 |
Genre | Africa, West |
ISBN |