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The Price of Liberty: African Americans and the Making of Liberia

The Price of Liberty: African Americans and the Making of Liberia. By Claude A. Clegg III. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2004. Pp. xiv, 330. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-5516-2; cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8078-2845-9.)

The subtitle of this book leads the reader to expect information on how African Americans participated in the founding of Liberia. Instead, the book focuses significantly on another very interesting and provocative topic-the role of North Carolina Quakers in the nineteenth-century colonization movement.

The American Colonization Society (ACS) was established in December 1816. ACS founders believed that black removal was the best option for dealing ...

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