An African Republic: Black and White Virginians in the Making of Liberia

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An African Republic The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture Waldo E. Martin Jr. and Patricia Sullivan, editors The University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill Black & White Virginians in the Making of Liberia An African Republic Marie Tyler-McGraw © 2007 The University of North Carolina Press All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America Designed and typeset in New Baskerville and Clarendon by Eric M. Brooks The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Tyler-McGraw, Marie. An African republic: Black and White Virginians in the making of Liberia/Marie Tyler-McGraw. p. cm.—(The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture) Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn-13: 978-0-8078-3167-0 (cloth: alk. paper) 1. African Americans—Colonization—Liberia. 2. Liberia—History—To 1847. 3. Liberia— History—1847–1944. 4. African Americans— Virginia—History—19th century. 5. Free African Americans—Virginia—History—19th century. 6. Whites—Virginia—History—19th century. 7. Liberia—Emigration and immigration— History—19th century. 8. Virginia—Emigration and immigration—History—19th century. 9. Virginia—Race relations—History—19th century. 10. American Colonization Society— History. I. Title. dt633.t95 2007 966.62'004960730767—dc22 2007014848 11 10 09 08 07 5 4 3 2 1 To the stones that the builders rejected We are the guardians of a nation in the bud—a miniature of this republic, a coloured America on the shores of Africa. C. C. Harper to American Colonization Society, African Repository 3 (January 1828): 325 Who-so-ever in writing a moderne Historie, shall follow truth too neare the heeles, it may haply strike out his teeth. . . . He that goeth after her too farre off, looseth her sight, and looseth himself: And he that walks after her at a middle distance; I know not whether to call that kinde of course Temper or Basenesse. Sir Walter Raleigh, History of the World This page intentionally left blank ...