Vierra Queen: 2023 Junior Fellows Program Display Day

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The Back-to-Africa movement was based on the widespread belief among some European Americans in the 18th and 19th century that African Americans would want to return to the continent of Africa. Although the political movement was considered a widespread failure as many few former freed slaves wanted to move to Africa, it energized an abolitionist movement in the United States in the 1850s. This push to go back to Africa also inspired U.S. interest in Liberia, one of the first countries founded by free people of color in the United States. The Daniel A.P. Murray archive currently has dozens of documents analyzing the stories of those involved in the organization of the colony of Monrovia, Liberia, those opposed to this movement, and the stories of African Americans who participated in this venture. It is essential to share these stories and bring light to a movement not often discussed in abolitionist and civil rights era banter.

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Archive

Library of Congress, in Library of Congress: talks and concerts

Licence or status

Rights statement at the Library of Congress, as the Library of Congress states it.

Credit

Library of Congress

Language

English

Country

United States

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