Horsa Departing for Liberia

Departure of the Back-to-Africa Movement ship Horsa, bound for Liberia with approximately 200 passengers, half of them from Jefferson County; March 1895.

Crowd of people gathered at boat dock and aboard a ship with horse-drawn cart in the foreground

Courtesy of Harper's Weekly magazine

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