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Journey of hope : the Back-to-Africa movement in Arkansas in the late 1800s /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Barnes, Kenneth C., 1956-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2004]
Series:John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
Subjects:
American Colonization Society > History.
African Americans > Colonization > Liberia.
African Americans > Arkansas > History > 19th century.
Sharecroppers > Arkansas > History > 19th century.
Black nationalism > History > 19th century.
Liberia > History > 1847-1944.
Liberia > Emigration and immigration > History > 19th century.
Arkansas > Emigration and immigration > History > 19th century.
Table of Contents:
  • The Liberia Exodus Arkansas Colony, 1877-1880
  • A Movement Ebbs and Flows: The 1880s
  • Hope Ignites: Liberia Fever, 1888-1891
  • Gaw'n t' 'Beria: The Crisis of 1892
  • Troublemakers
  • Missions
  • The Meaning of Africa
  • The Last Voyages
  • In Liberia.