Tracing the movement of people to and from Liberia in the nineteenth century.Established by the American Colonization Society in the early nineteenth century as a settlement for free people of color, the West African colony of Liberia is usually seen as an endpoint in the journeys of those who traveled there. In Atlantic Passages, Robert Murray reveals that many Liberian settlers did not remain in Africa but returned repeatedly to the United States, and he explores the ways this movement shaped the construction of race in the Atlantic world. Tracing the transatlantic crossings of...
Tracing the movement of people to and from Liberia in the nineteenth century.Established by the American Colonization Society in the early nineteenth ...
