Between 1820 and 1913, approximately 16,000 black people left the United States to start new lives in Liberia, Africa, in what was at the time the largest out-migration in US history. When Tolbert Major, a former Kentucky slave and single father, was offered his own chance for freedom, he accepted. He, several family members, and seventy other people boarded the Luna on July 5, 1836. After they arrived in Liberia, Tolbert penned a letter to his former owner, Ben Major: "Dear Sir, We have all landed on the shores of Africa and got into our houses.... None of us have been taken with the fever yet." Drawing on extensive research and fifteen years' worth of surviving letters, author Susan E. Lindsey illuminates the trials and triumphs of building a new life in Liberia, where settlers were free, but struggled to acclimate themselves to an unfamiliar land, coexist with indigenous groups, and overcome disease and other dangers. Liberty Brought Us Here: The True Story of American Slaves Who Migrated to Liberia explores the motives and attitudes of colonization supporters and those who lived in the colony, offering perspectives beyond the standard narrative that colonization was driven solely by racism or forced exile.

Liberty Brought Us Here: The True Story of American Slaves Who Migrated to Liberia

Biographies & Memoirs

Lindsey, Susan E.

Community & Culture

University Press of Kentucky

Food, family, friends, love . . . From humble spoonbread to chocolate caramels and gingersnaps that snap, this collection of recipes gives today’s cooks a glimpse into the kitchens of the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth century. Hattie Morton Speed gathered her own treasured recipes and those of her close friends. These recipes are reproduced here exactly as they appear in the collection provided to Farmington, followed by notes from modern cooks who tested and refined them. You’ll find recipes for sugar pie, Mexican eggs, chicken ala king, transparent pie, and more. Heritage Recipes also includes brief sketches of some of the women who, many decades ago, prepared these recipes with love.

Speed Family Heritage Recipes

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Cooking Education & Reference

R.C. Linnell Publishing

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