Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Book Cover
book
BookBook
Author Reef, Catherine.

Title This our dark country : the American settlers of Liberia / Catherine Reef.

Publication Info. New York : Clarion Books, [2002]
©2002

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Children's Department  J966.62 REE    Storage
 Enfield, Main Library - Children's Department  J 966.62 REE    Check Shelf
 Granby, Main Library - Adult  966.62 REE    Check Shelf
 Portland Public Library - Children's Department  J 966.62 REE    Check Shelf
Description 136 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Summary Explores the history of the colony, later the independent nation of Liberia, which was established on the west coast of Africa in 1822 as a haven for free African Americans.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-132) and index.
Contents "These Free, Sunny Shores" -- "Beyond the Reach of Mixture" -- Divine providence -- Americans -- Life upriver -- Progress -- "Some Fertile Country" -- "The Beclouded Sun" -- Epilogue: Liberia, troubled land.
Study Program Accelerated Reader AR MG 8.9 4.0 65485.
Subject Antislavery movements.
African Americans -- Colonization -- Africa.
African Americans -- Liberia -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile literature.
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation.
African Americans -- Colonization -- Liberia -- Juvenile literature.
American Colonization Society.
Liberia -- History -- To 1847.
Liberia -- History -- To 1847 -- Juvenile literature.
African Americans -- Liberia -- History -- 19th century.
ISBN 0618147853 alkaline paper
-->
Add a Review