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In nineteenth-century America, the belief that blacks and whites could not live in social harmony and political equality in the same country led to a movement to relocate African Americans to Liberia, a West African colony established by the United States government and the American Colonization Society in 1822. In The Price of Liberty, Claude Clegg accounts for 2,030 North Carolina blacks who left the state and took up residence in Liberia between...
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Covers the effects of dealing with slavery on the growth of the federal government: the navy grew to intercept slave ships after 1808, the army grew to clear Indians out of the way to keep slave markets stable, the federal government rented slaves, and a new kind of partnership between the government and the private sector emerged to found the colony of Liberia.
Many scholars believe that the existence of slavery stymied the development of the American...
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