{"product_id":"an-african-republic-marie-tyler-mcgraw-9781469615189","title":"An African Republic: Black and White Virginians in the Making of Liberia","description":"The nineteenth-century American Colonization Society (ACS) project of persuading all American free blacks to emigrate to the ACS colony of Liberia could never be accomplished. Few free blacks volunteered, and greater numbers would have overwhelmed the meager resources of the ACS. Given that reality, who supported African colonization and why? No state was more involved with the project than Virginia, where white Virginians provided much of the political and organizational leadership and black Virginians provided a majority of the emigrants.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eAn African Republic\u003c\/i\u003e, Marie Tyler-McGraw traces the parallel but seldom intersecting tracks of black and white Virginians' interests in African colonization, from revolutionary-era efforts at emancipation legislation to African American churches' concern for African missions. In Virginia, African colonization attracted aging revolutionaries, republican mothers and their daughters, bondpersons schooled and emancipated for Liberia, evangelical planters and merchants, urban free blacks, opportunistic politicians, Quakers, and gentlemen novelists. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAn African Republic\u003c\/i\u003e follows the experiences of the emigrants from Virginia to Liberia, where some became the leadership class, consciously seeking to demonstrate black abilities, while others found greater hardship and early death. Tyler-McGraw carefully examines the tensions between racial identities, domestic visions, and republican citizenship in Virginia and Liberia. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Marie Tyler-Mcgraw\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1469615185\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781469615189\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of North Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.60d","brand":"Marie Tyler-Mcgraw","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43935448105215,"sku":"9781469615189","price":37.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_f8124ee4-8e34-42d8-8070-26fe2312e96e.jpg?v=1681419856","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/an-african-republic-marie-tyler-mcgraw-9781469615189","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}