CSPAN Washington This Week December 29, 2014
He toured United States, raising money to buy freedom for himself and his children. Newspapers around the country chronicled his travels and his life story. Colonization enthusiasts, white americans who wanted to emancipate black people and repatriate them to west africa, hoped that ibrahaman would aid them in establishing the medic ties before the death between the colonies of liberia and nearby kingdoms as well as helping to convert west africa to christianity. In 1829, he journeyed to liberia...
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