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Another America: The Story of Liberia and the Former Slaves Who Ruled It Reviews Borrow By James Ciment. From Hill and Wang.  Amazon rank #84,199The first popular history of the former American slaves who founded, ruled, and lost Africa’s first republic In 1820, a small group of African Americans reversed the course of centuries and sailed to Africa, to a place they would name after liberty itself. They went under the aegis of the American Colonization Society, a white philanthropic organization with a dual agenda: to rid America of its blacks and to evangelize Africa. The settlers, eventually numbering in the thousands, broke free from the ACS and, in 1847, established the Republic of Liberia. |
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Another America: The Story of Liberia and the Former Slaves Who Ruled It
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