Volume 53, Number 6 · April 6, 2006
Pioneers
By Benjamin Moser
On Afric's Shore: A History of Maryland in Liberia, 1834–1857
by Richard L. Hall
Maryland Historical Society, 644 pp., $45.00
On November 27, 1833, the decrepit brig Ann, under the direction of a violent alcoholic captain, sailed out of Baltimore harbor. Aboard were several missionaries and twenty-two African-Americans who, under the sponsorship of the state of Maryland and various private philanthropists, intended to found a 'virtuous commonwealth of teetotaling freeholders' on the Grain Coast of Africa.
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