On Afric's shore
Subtitle: a history of Maryland in Liberia, 1834-1857
By: Richard L. Hall.
Contributors: Maryland Historical Society.
Publisher: Maryland Historical Society
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 644
Subjects: Maryland State Colonization Society; African Americans -- Colonization -- Liberia; African Americans -- Maryland -- History -- 19th century; Liberia -- History -- To 1847; Liberia -- History -- 1847-1944
Description: "...Some eleven hundred black Americans-men, women, and children; some slave, some freedmen, some freeborn; most from Maryland-did emigrate to Cape Palmas between 1833 and 1856...They went to Africa for precisely the same reasons that inspired the westward movement of European settlers across North America: cheap or free land, economic opportunity, the chance to live, think, and worship in freedom, and the prospect that succeeding generations wuld have better lives. Moreover, settlers of Maryland In Liberia had a sense that they must prove a point to the rest of the world-that they could live and prosper as well as any other community. On Afric's Shore records their efforts do just that." -- Introd.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 610-618) and index.