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Title: AFRICAN-AMERICAN EXPLORATION IN WEST AFRICA
FOUR NINETEENTH-CENTURY DIARIES
By: James Fairhead (Editor), Tim Geysbeek (Editor), Svend E. Holsoe (Editor)
Format: Book

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ISBN 10: 0253341949
ISBN 13: 9780253341945
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Publisher: INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 13 November, 2003
Pages: 504
Description: Presents four travel diaries of pioneering African Americans who were the first to explore and document the West African interior. This work reveals the wealth and beauty of Africa in descriptions of its geography, people, flora, and fauna. It challenges the notion that there were no black explorers in Africa.
Synopsis: In the 1860s, as America waged civil war, several thousand African Americans sought greater freedom by emigrating to the fledgling nation of Liberia. While some argued that the new black republic represented disposal rather than emancipation, a few intrepid men set out to explore their African home. African-American Exploration in West Africa collects the travel diaries of James L. Sims, George L. Seymour, and Benjamin J. K. Anderson, who explored the territory that is now Liberia and Guinea between 1858 and 1874. These remarkable diaries reveal the wealth and beauty of Africa in striking descriptions of its geography, people, flora, and fauna. The dangers of the journeys surface, too-Seymour was attacked and later died of his wounds, and his companion, Levin Ash, was captured and sold into slavery again. Challenging the notion that there were no black explorers in Africa, these diaries provide unique perspectives on 19th-century Liberian life and life in the interior of the continent before it was radically changed by European colonialism.
Publication: US
Imprint: Indiana University Press
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