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Category : Livingston County (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
The Biographical Record of Livingston County, Illinois
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Livingston County (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
The Biographical Record of Livingston and Woodford Counties, Illinois
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Category : Livingston County (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
Biographical Record of Livingston and Woodford Counties
Author: Travel and Description, 1765-1865
Author: Solon Justus BuckPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
The Biographical Record of McLean County, Illinois
Author: The Biographical Record of McLean County, Illinois
Author: Brookhaven PressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
The Researcher
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Category : Registers of births, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Portrait and Biographical Record of Ford County, Illinois
Author: Portrait and Biographical Record of Iroquois County, Illinois
Author: Liberty Brought Us Here
Author: Susan E. LindseyPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813179343
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Between 1820 and 1913, approximately 16,000 black people left the United States to start new lives in Liberia, Africa, in what was at the time the largest out-migration in US history. When Tolbert Major, a former Kentucky slave and single father, was offered his own chance for freedom, he accepted. He, several family members, and seventy other people boarded the Luna on July 5, 1836. After they arrived in Liberia, Tolbert penned a letter to his former owner, Ben Major: "Dear Sir, We have all landed on the shores of Africa and got into our houses.... None of us have been taken with the fever yet." Drawing on extensive research and fifteen years' worth of surviving letters, author Susan E. Lindsey illuminates the trials and triumphs of building a new life in Liberia, where settlers were free, but struggled to acclimate themselves to an unfamiliar land, coexist with indigenous groups, and overcome disease and other dangers. Liberty Brought Us Here: The True Story of American Slaves Who Migrated to Liberia explores the motives and attitudes of colonization supporters and those who lived in the colony, offering perspectives beyond the standard narrative that colonization was driven solely by racism or forced exile.