This our dark country
Subtitle: the American settlers of Liberia
By: Catherine Reef.
Publisher: Clarion Books
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 136
Subjects: American Colonization Society.; African Americans -- Colonization -- Liberia -- Juvenile literature.; African Americans -- Liberia -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile literature.; African Americans -- Colonization -- Africa.; African Americans -- Liberia -- History -- 19th century.; Slaves -- Emancipation.; Antislavery movements.; Liberia -- History -- To 1847 -- Juvenile literature.; Liberia -- History -- To 1847.
Genres: Juvenile literature.
Description: Explores the history of the colony, later the independent nation of Liberia, which was established on the west coast of Africa in 1822 as a haven for free African Americans.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-132) and index.
Table of contents: title: "These Free, Sunny Shores"; title: "Beyond the Reach of Mixture"; title: Divine providence; title: Americans; title: Life upriver; title: Progress; title: "Some Fertile Country"; title: "The Beclouded Sun"; title: Epilogue: Liberia, troubled land.