Anita, As I get a new section on the website ready for the various aspects of the "slavery era", I will greatly appreciate any and all links you know of to the information. Anne Anne Pemberton [log in to unmask] http://www.erols.com/apembert http://www.educationalsynthesis.org ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anita Wills" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 8:22 PM Subject: Re: Va. Emigrants to Liberia Web site launched Anne, I also checked the link, and it is very informative. I have been communicating with descendants of Free Blacks who emigrated to Liberia. There was a large contingent who left Virginia and settled there in the 1830's. I have also been in contact with descendants of Free Blacks who settled in Nova Scotia. Anita > Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:25:34 -0400 > From: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: Va. Emigrants to Liberia Web site launched > To: [log in to unmask] > > Juretta, > > Thanks so much for the link. I will put it in a proper place on my website > http://www.educationalsynthesis.org > > Anne > > Anne Pemberton > [log in to unmask] > http://www.erols.com/apembert > http://www.educationalsynthesis.org > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jurretta J. Heckscher" <[log in to unmask]> > To: <[log in to unmask]> > Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 2:54 PM > Subject: Va. Emigrants to Liberia Web site launched > > > Dear colleagues: > > The following announcement has been issued by the Virginia Center for > Digital History at the University of Virginia. Although it is unlikely > that > many of us will be able to attend the event announced, many more of us can > now take advantage of the splendid new Web site that it celebrates. > > -- Jurretta Heckscher > > > The Virginia Center for Digital History invites you to attend a > launch/presentation of the new VCDH website > > Virginia Emigrants to Liberia > http://www.vcdh.virginia.edu/liberia > > with historians/project directors Marie Tyler-McGraw and Deborah Lee > > Wednesday, Oct. 1 > 4:00 - 5:30 > Byrd/Morris Seminar Rooms (318/318A) > David and Mary Harrison Institute for American History, Literature, and > Culture > > Between 1820 and 1865, under the auspices of the American Colonization > Society, more than 3,700 African-Americans from Virginia emigrated to > Liberia. Some went eagerly, others left reluctantly in exchange for their > freedom. Some prospered; many perished. In 1847 they helped establish the > first African republic. > > In this website, Marie Tyler-McGraw and Deborah Lee have shared decades of > research into the lives of the emigrants and emancipators featuring a > searchable database, stories of emigrants' experiences, and related > primary > and secondary resources. These materials illuminate the lives of free and > enslaved Virginians and facilitate further research. > > Marie Tyler-McGraw is the author of An African Republic: Black and White > Virginians in the Making of Liberia (University of North Carolina Press, > 2007). Copies of the book will be available for sale and signing, thanks > to > cosponsorship from the University of Virginia Bookstore. > > Funding for this project was provided by the Virginia Foundation for the > Humanities. > > ---- > The Virginia Center for Digital History > University of Virginia > > ______________________________________ > To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe please see the instructions > at > http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html > > ______________________________________ > To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe please see the instructions > at > http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html _________________________________________________________________ Get more out of the Web. Learn 10 hidden secrets of Windows Live. http://windowslive.com/connect/post/jamiethomson.spaces.live.com-Blog-cns!550F681DAD532637!5295.entry?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_domore_092008 ______________________________________ To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html ______________________________________ To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html