Ocean State Libraries

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.

Traces the life and achievements of the early spokesman againstslavery who expressed his anti-slavery views in "Freedom's Journal," the first American newspaper owned and operated by Blacks.

"Jonathan White illuminates why Lincoln's then-unprecedented welcome of African Americans to the White House transformed the trajectory of race relations in the United States. Drawing from an array of primary sources, White reveals how the Great Emancipator used the White House as the stage to empower Black voices in our country's most divisive era"--