Have a more direct and focused working thesis. Big step in narrowing what I want to research. I have written the first four pages – wondering if it is specific enough. Do not know how much of an overview I should give.
After initial topic change met with Professor Allen. Meeting was extremely helpful and great guidance was given. Library has impressive amount of books on Liberia and the formation of a freed slave colony in West Africa. First time doing research predominantly out of books and I finding myself missing the easiness of highlighting articles on […]
Millions of Europeans were coming into America as thousands of black Americans were returning to their ancestor’s homeland Africa, the colony founded as Liberia. The motives of return were widespread and varied even within race. White Southerners mainly wanted blacks to leave the United States because as abolition came closer they realized the only thing […]