In an Africa partitioned among European powers, Liberia stood almost alone as an independent state governed by Africans. The anthropologist Frederick Starr describes its land, peoples, trails and towns, traces its founding by freed American slaves and its later history, and examines its problems, arguing against the common verdict that the republic was a failure.
A sympathetic early study of Liberia, useful to anyone exploring the history of West Africa and its ties to America. Download the free EPUB.