# An African Republic: Black and White Virginians in the Making of Liberia

Who supported the African colonization movement and settlement in Liberia in the 19th century and why? According to a new book by historian Marie Tyler-McGraw, no state was more involved than Virginia, where black Virginians sustained the early impetus for colonization and made up a majority of the emigrants who went to Liberia, and white Virginians provided much of the political and organizational leadership. Tyler-McGraw presented her arguments on the national and international significance of Virginia's investment in Liberian colonization, discussed her research and signed her book, "An African Republic: Black and White Virginians in the Making of Liberia," in a program organized by the Center for the Book and co-sponsored by the Library's Digital Reference Team in the Office of the Director for Public Services Collections, which sponsored a September 2007 presentation for staff on the "Virginia Emigrants to Liberia" Web site. The site, currently under construction by the Virginia Center for Digital History, is sponsored by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, the home of the Virginia Center for the Book. The records of the American Colonization Society, a major resource for the book, are in the Library's Manuscript Division. Other Library of Congress offices and collections, including the Rare Book and Special Collections Division and the American Folklife Center, were also central to Tyler-McGraw's research. In "An African Republic," Tyler-McGraw traces the…

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2007
- By: Library Of Congress. Center For The Book
- Genres: History
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/2021687909/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
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