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History Now Essay

From Colony to Nation: Liberian Independence and Black Self-Government in the Atlantic World

Claude A. Clegg III

Government and Civics, World History

The emergence of the independent republic of Liberia on the coast of West Africa in the mid-nineteenth century was a historically significant turn of events in several ways. Led by a Black American settler class that sought to rule...
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61 | The Declaration of Independence and the Origins of Self-Determination in the Modern World Fall 2021
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Pamphlet

1866

United States. Congress

Final report of the congressional committee upon the question of reconstruction

Report of the Joint Committee of the two Houses of Congress on reconstruction. The legislation contains a draft of the 14th amendment, and two bills providing for the restoration of the rebellious state to their full political rights.

GLC03465
Collection Item
Pamphlet

1861

Wallis, Severn Teackle, 1816-1894

Report of the Committee on Federal Relations in Regard to the Calling of a Sovereign Convention

Also on the committee were J.H. Gordon, G.W. Goldsborough, James T. Briscoe, and Barnes Compton. Printed by E.S. Riley in Frederick, Maryland. Opposes all efforts to defeat rebellion in the Confederate States. Says "If a President of the United...

GLC03773.01

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