The Liberian exodus
Subtitle: an account of voyage of the first emigrants in the bark "Azor," and their reception at Monrovia, with a description of Liberia-its customs and civilization, romances and prospects
By: a series of letters from A.B. Williams
Contributors: Liberian Exodus Association (Charleston, S.C.); American Colonization Society; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: African Americans; Colonization; Free African Americans; Description and travel; Social life and customs; Missions; Back to Africa movement
Other titles: Church in the Southern Black community.
Description: Describes the voyage of the Azor, a ship sent by the Charleston-based Liberian Exodus Association to carry black American immigrants to Africa, and relates Williams's observations on the culture of Liberia. Narrative includes conditions on the ship such as spoiled food, storms, filthy and cramped accommodations, seasickness and an epidemic of measles which claimed the lives of several immigrants. The ship first puts ashore at Freetown, Sierra Leone, which favorably impresses Williams. Monrovia, Liberia, however, he finds "desolate". Much to the immigrants' dismay, when they land in Liberia they discover that no one there has been informed of their coming; fortunately, the local government chooses to welcome them. Williams goes on to tour sections of Liberia. He travels up the St. Paul's River and encounters two of the native tribes, the Kroo and the Vei. Later, he meets Anthony W. Gardner, the President of Liberia, a former black immigrant from America. He describes in great detail the climate of Liberia, its government, its people, the vegetation to be found there, and the reception of the immigrants.
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Transcribed from: The Liberian exodus : an account of voyage of the first emigrants in the bark "Azor," and their reception at Monrovia, with a description of Liberia-its customs and civilization, romances and prospects / a series of letters from A.B. Williams, the special correspondent of the News and Courier. Charleston, S.C. : The News and Courier Book Presses, 1878. 62 p.

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