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The African-American Emigration Movement In Georgia During Reconstruction, Falechiondro Karcheik Sims-Alvarado
The African-American Emigration Movement In Georgia During Reconstruction, Falechiondro Karcheik Sims-Alvarado
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This dissertation is a narrative history about nearly 800 newly freed black Georgians who sought freedom beyond the borders of the Unites States by emigrating to Liberia during the years of 1866 and 1868. This work fulfills three overarching goals. First, I demonstrate that during the wake of Reconstruction, newly freed persons’ interest in returning to Africa did not die with the Civil War. Second, I identify and analyze the motivations of blacks seeking autonomy in Africa. Third, I tell the stories and challenges of those black Georgians who chose emigration as the means to civil and political freedom in …
Africans, Cherokees, And The Abcfm Missionaries In The Nineteenth Century: An Unusual Story Of Redemption, Gnimbin Albert Ouattara
Africans, Cherokees, And The Abcfm Missionaries In The Nineteenth Century: An Unusual Story Of Redemption, Gnimbin Albert Ouattara
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My dissertation, “Africans, Cherokees, and the ABCFM Missionaries in the Nineteenth Century: An Unusual Story of Redemption,” assesses the experience of American missionaries in the Cherokee nation and in Western Africa during the nineteenth century. The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM), founded in 1810, was the first successful foreign missionary society in the U.S., and its campaign among the Cherokees served as springboard for its activities in “Western Africa”—Liberia, Ivory Coast, Gabon, and South Africa. Although the Cherokees and the West Africans were two different peoples, the ABCFM used the same method to Christianize them: the Lancasterian …