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Originally Posted by uujudy

I just finished The House at Sugar Beach by Helene Cooper.
The librarian at the Villages Belvedere library recommended it to me, and I must say it's not a book I would have chosen, but I'm so glad she did!

Did you know that in the early 1800s America founded a colony in West Africa? I didn't know this. The government gave free black descendants of slaves the option of returning to Africa. The first ship set sail for Africa in 1822, well before the beginning of the Civil War.

The book is both an autobiography of Helene Cooper, diplomatic correspondent for the New York Times, and a history lesson we never learned in school.
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PS: The book has both a map and a family tree. I needed the visual aids.

I think that's what became Liberia.

Suzanne