de bene esse: Free Blacks to Liberia

Monday, March 18, 2013

Free Blacks to Liberia

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

On this day in 1895, 200 free Blacks relocated to Liberia.

William Henry (Harrison) Heard - pictured - led the resettlement effort and built a church in Liberia that still stands today.

http://newsone.com/2289064/william-henry-harrison-hea-free-blacks-liberia/

On this day in 1895, 200 free Blacks would relocate to Liberia. Do you think, if you were alive back then, that you would have returned to Africa rather than deal with American racism and disenfranchisement? William Henry (Harrison) Heard (pictured) would lead the resettlement effort and build a church in Liberia that still stands today.

http://newsone.com/2289064/william-henry-harrison-hea-free-blacks-liberia/

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