Laurada Departing for Liberia

Departure of the Back-to-Africa Movement ship Laurada bound for Liberia with approximately 300 passengers, half of them from Arkansas; March 1896.

Crowd of people gathered on boat dock with two ships

Courtesy of Illustrated American Magazine

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