An African Republic: Black and White Virginians in the Making of Liberia
The 19th-century American Colonization Society (ACS) project of persuading all American free blacks to emigrate to the ACS colony of Liberia could never be accomplished. Who supported African colonization and why? No state was more involved with the project than Virginia.\ Tyler-McGraw traces the parallel but seldom intersecting tracks of black and white Virginians' interests in African colonization. African colonization attracted aging revolutionaries, republican mothers and their daughters,...
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The 19th-century American Colonization Society (ACS) project of persuading all American free blacks to emigrate to the ACS colony of Liberia could never be accomplished. Who supported African colonization and why? No state was more involved with the project than Virginia. Tyler-McGraw traces the parallel but seldom intersecting tracks of black and white Virginians' interests in African colonization. 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. Tyler-McGraw follows the experiences of the emigrants from Virginia to Liberia, where some became the leadership class, consciously seeking to demonstrate black abilities, while others found greater hardship and early death.
Acknowledgments ixIntroduction 1A Small Frisson of Fear, Soon Soothed 9The Alchemy of Colonization 23Auxiliary Arms 39Ho, All Ye That Are by the Pale-Faces' Laws Oppressed: Out of Virginia 63My Old Mistress Promise Me 83Revising the Future in Virginia 105Virginians in Liberia 127Liberians in Africa and America 151Civil War to White City 171Notes 183Bibliographical Essay 227Index 233
\ From the PublisherBeautifully crafted and brimming with insight . . .\ —Elizabeth R. Varon, Temple University\ [Marie Tyler-McGraw] has given us a gift of scholarship that will fascinate as well as educate.\ —James Oliver Horton, George Washington University, author of The Landmarks of African American History and coauthor of Slavery and the Making of America\ \ \
