journey to the promised land (2)

Promised Land

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This is an article about the Tolbert Clan of Liberia.The Tolberts emigrated to Liberia in 1878 aboard the ship the Bark Azor.Racial violence caused many African Americans to want to emigrate to Liberia after Reconstruction.The Liberia Exodus company was formed to purchase ships to trade and send emigrants to Liberia.This is the story of my novel"Journey to the Promised Land"Voyage of the Bark Azor.Richard Tolbert the nephew of the last Americo Liberian president William R Tolbert sent me this article from the American Perspective magazine 2004.There is also a documentary on the Tolbert story in Journeyman films

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