| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.4

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The Price of Liberty: African Americans and the Making of Liberia. By Claude A. Clegg III. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. xiv, 330 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8078-2845-9. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-5516-2.)

Using a variety of primary sources and scholarly publications, Claude A. Clegg III examines the roles played mainly by North Carolinian blacks, the American Colonization Society (ACS), and pre-Liberia's social, cultural, and material arrangements in the development of the distinctiveness of Liberia, an African American settlement that was established on the coast of West Africa in 1822. Clegg's main argument is that Liberia's unique characteristics, which included its aristocratic and centralized leadership system, its furtherance of settlers' liberty and privileges typically at the expense of those of non-settler Liberians, its occasional stability and instability, its forced labor system, its decorum, and other institutional values and norms have been consequences of the relations that developed between such coastal ethnic groups as the Dei, Vai, Gola, Grebo, Kpell, Kru, and Bassa, on the one hand, and African American settlers together with African Americanized recaptures, on the other.

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