Journey of Hope
Subtitle: The Back-to-Africa Movement in Arkansas in the Late 1800s (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: December 9, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780807828793
Subjects: Black studies; History of specific racial & ethnic groups; Immigration & emigration; United States - State & Local - South; c 1800 to c 1900; Colonization; Africa - West; Sharecroppers; Social Science; History; Sociology; Arkansas; Emigration & Immigration; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor; History / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV); Liberia; American Colonization Society; free and liberated American slaves; Arkansas; back-to-African movement; African migration; Africa - General; Liberia; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; 1847-1944; 19th century; African Americans
First sentence: On 23 November 1877, a convention of nearly one hundred black delegates and observers assembled at the Third Baptist Church of Helena, Arkansas, to make plans for a mass migration to Liberia.