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Offers a thorough examination of Afro-Barbadian migration to Liberia during the mid- to late nineteenth century.

WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZEA New York Times Book Review and Atlantic Monthly Editors' ChoiceThomas Jefferson denied that whites and freed blacks could live tog