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Religions > Atheism |
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"maff" |
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01 May 2004 05:25:21 AM |
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'Mississippi in Africa': The Promised Land |
'Mississippi in Africa': The Promised Land
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/02/books/review/02BERLINT.html?pagewanted=all&position=
By IRA BERLIN
Published: May 2, 2004
OF the many tragedies set in motion by the enslavement of African
people in the United States, few are more sorrowful than the history
of Liberia. Founded in 1816 as a refuge for black Americans by a
peculiar alliance of slaveholders and abolitionists, Liberia was
advertised by its proponents -- so-called colonizationists -- as a
means of speeding slavery's demise and demonstrating the capacities of
people of African descent; it would also renew the continent with an
infusion of evangelical Christianity, American republicanism and
commercial capitalism.
MISSISSIPPI IN AFRICA
By Alan Huffman.
328 pp. New York: Gotham Books. $27.
Liberia Liberian Liberians
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