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Maps of Liberia, 1830-1870, a subset of Map Collections:
1500-2003, includes maps from the American Colonization Society
(ACS) that was organized in 1817 to resettle free black Americans
in West Africa. These maps show early settlements in Liberia, political
subdivisions, and some of the lots that were assigned to settlers.
Other maps in the collection show areas of Liberia that were given
to settlers by indigenous Liberian chiefs. One map in the collection
is thought to have been created by the black American explorer
Benjamin
Anderson.
These online exhibits provide context and additional
information about this collection.
History
Of Liberia: A Time Line
These historical era(s) are best represented
in the collection, although they may not be all-encompassing.
Expansion and Reform, 1801-1861
The Civil War and Reconstruction, 1850-1877
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These collections and exhibits contain thematically-related
primary and secondary sources. Also browse the Collection
Finder for more related material on the American Memory Web
site.
The
African-American Experience in Ohio, 1850-1920
African-American
Mosaic
African
American Odyssey
African American
Perspectives, 1818-1907
African-American
Sheet Music, 1850-1920
American
Life Histories, 1936-1940
America's
First Look into the Camera: Daguerreotypes, 1839-1862
Civil War Photographs,
1861-1865
First-Person
Narratives of the American South, 1860-1920
From
Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1824-1909
Abraham
Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress
Sheet
Music about Lincoln, Emancipation, and the Civil War
Recommended additional sources of information.
Read
More About It! - A bibliography
Related
Resources
Specific guidance for searching this collection.
Search
for Liberia maps using the keyword search, keeping the selection
set on "Search American Colonization Society Collection ONLY". (Otherwise,
you will search all the map collections.)
You can find maps by browsing the Subject
Index, Creator
Index, or Geographic
Location list of maps.
For more help with search strategies, see Finding
Items in American Memory.
There are a number of different viewing options, but no special
viewers are needed to see the maps. A special technology called
MrSID (Multi-Resolution Seamless Image Database) by LizardTech allows
you to zoom in or out on an area of the map that you wish to inspect.
If you wish to save maps with these special viewing options on your
computer, you will need to download
the free MrSID software.
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