Swing Low, Sweet Chariot The Mortality Cost of Colonizing Liberia in the Nineteenth Century

Name: Swing Low, Sweet Chariot The Mortality Cost of Colonizing Liberia in the Nineteenth Century
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ISBN: 9780226557243

ISBN-10: 0226557243

ISBN-13: 9780226557243

Edition: 1995

Authors: Antonio McDaniel, Antonio McDaniel

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In the early nineteenth century, thousands of emancipated and freeborn blacks from the United States returned to Africa to colonize the area now known as Liberia. In this, the first systematic study of the demographic impact of this move on the migrants, Antonio McDaniel finds that the health of migrant populations depends on the adaptability of the individuals in the group, not on their race. McDaniel compares the mortality rates of the emigrants to those of other migrants to tropical areas. He finds that, contrary to popular belief, black immigrants during this period died at unprecedented rates. Moreover, he shows that though the emigrant's mortality levels were exceptionally high,…

Book details

List price: $62.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 4/15/1995
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 213
Size: 0.02" wide x 0.04" long x 0.00" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Figures and Maps Tables


Acknowledgments


Introduction


Abbreviations



Background to the Colonization of Liberia



Colonization and Mortality



The Return to Sierra Leone



Colonization and Mortality in Early Nineteenth-Century Liberia



Migration and Colonization in Liberia



Mortality of the Liberian Immigrant Population



An Event History Analysis of Mortality in Liberia



Liberian Mortality: Another Dimension of the African Diaspora



Liberian Mortality in Comparative Perspective



Epilogue



Data and Methods



Committee Report on the "Report on the Medical Statistics of the Colony




Additional Tables


Notes


Bibliography


Index