Awaiting Passage to Liberia

Woodcut from Leslie’s Magazine depicting African American refugees from Arkansas awaiting transportation to Liberia at the Mount Olivet Baptist Chapel in New York City; 1880.

African American adults and children gathered in large room with beds and tables

Courtesy of Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

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