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Virginia Emigrants to Liberia
URL: http://www.vcdh.virginia.edu/liberia/index.php?page=Virginia%20Emigrants%20To%20Liberia

Description:
This website features "a searchable database of nearly 3700 Virginia emigrants to Liberia and nearly 250 Virginia emancipators, a timeline of relevant events and documents between 1787 and 1866, a compilation of important related sources, links to related research websites and news of Liberia today." The materials on this site expand upon a 2007 book on Virginia's role in the African colonization movement. From the Virginia Center for Digital History.

LII Topics: African Diaspora, Black Resources, Emigration & Immigration, Slavery, Abolition, & Emancipation, Specific Regions

Publisher:
Virginia Center for Digital History

Extra Keywords
Marie Tyler-McGraw An African Republic: Black and White Virginians in the Making of Liberia

LII Database Information:
Record 27492 created by Jennifer English on 12/12/2008
Last modification on 01/21/2009
Published: 01/29/2009  
Funding agency: California State Library
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/27492

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