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- Title
Leaving Virginia for Liberia: Western Virginia Emigrants and Emancipators.
- Authors
Ailes, Jane; Tyler-McGraw, Marie
- Abstract
The article discusses the immigration of African Americans from western Virginia, later the state of West Virginia, to Liberia in the mid-nineteenth century. It comments on the efforts of the American Colonization Society (ACS), addressing religious and abolitionist reasons behind the colonization of Liberia. The author reflects on attitudes toward slavery in western Virginia and the emancipation of slaves. The immigration of Samson Caesar, an African American Methodist preacher and missionary, is considered.
- Subjects
LIBERIA; WEST Virginia; VIRGINIA; UNITED States; AFRICAN Americans; COLONIZATION; WEST Virginia state history to 1950; VIRGINIA state history, 1775-1865; AMERICAN Colonization Society; CAESAR, Samson; EMANCIPATION of slaves; ANTISLAVERY movements; AFRICAN American missionaries; NINETEENTH century
- Publication
West Virginia History, 2012, Vol 6, Issue 2, p1
- ISSN
0043-325X
- Publication type
Article