| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.3

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Claude A. Clegg III. The Price of Liberty: African Americans and the Making of Liberia. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2004. Pp. xii, 330. Cloth $55.00, paper $19.95.
This book by Claude A. Clegg III is a welcome addition to the literature on the colonization movement, for it is the most comprehensive and scholarly study that has yet been undertaken on the subject. From the emergence of the antislavery movement among the Friends of North Carolina to the merger of Quaker goals with those of the colonizationists, the author does a superb job in explaining that the Friends were colonizationists in North Carolina because colonization was the only legal means by which they could free enslaved persons in the state.	1
Significantly, Clegg tells the story through the eyes and mouths of the persons most affected by colonization: the black emigrants. He examines their motives and aspirations, and his study goes far beyond other works because he tracks the emigrants after they landed in the West African colony. Unfortunately, their troubles did not end with their embarkation from America's shores; in many ways, trouble was just beginning. The emigrants encountered racism and color prejudice in Africa, in addition to hunger and illness. Instead of the paradise that they sought, the colony became a graveyard for many.	. . .

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