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For legions of Americans in the mid-19th century ... went north, west, and even to Africa, particularly to Liberia. Between the years 1879 and 1881, about 60,000 African Americans moved into ...

At the beginning of the 19th century, very few people in Africa were ... Catholic missionary expeditions were launched with new vigour to the West, in Senegal and Gabon. Protestant missionaries ...

Men brought over from the French colonies in North Africa and West Africa to fight and to die for France, the nation that had taken over their own countries by military force in the 19th century.