Archive for June 29, 2006

From Eufaula, Alabama to Liberia

29 June 2006 at 8:22 pm · Filed under Africa, Alabama, Author: S C Jordon, Barbour Co., emigration

On 14 May 1868 the ship Golconda set sail from Savannah, Georgia.  Onboard were 39 Eufaula residents heading for Bexley, Grand Bassa County, Liberia.   According to letters received by the American Colonization Society (ACS), there were hundreds of African Americans from the Eufaula area requesting passage to Africa.  Below is a transcribed list of Eufaula emigrants originally published by the ACS in The African Repository. Read the rest of this entry »

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