The Writings of Hilary Teage (1805-1853)
Know Your Self Press, 2016
Hilary Teage applied his many talents and considerable energies to campaigning for Liberia’s independence. Through both his actions and writings, he tirelessly promoted Christianity, rationalism and Republican government. His abiding passion was achieving and sustaining black self-governance.
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The Half That Has Never Been Told
Know Your Self Press, 2019
Liberia at its founding was a nationality in search of a nation. Due to Samori Touré’s incursions and the European Scramlevfor Africa, the country shifted from a loose confederation of ethnic groups to a state with tight borders. As a result of globalization and the recent civil war, Liberians are functioning less as citizens of a republic and more as clients of “big men.”
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Hilary Teage (1805-1853)
Know Your Self Press, 2013
Hilary Teage emigrated from Virginia to Liberia, where he became a Baptist pastor, merchant, statesman and newspaper editor. He produced an engaging and prodigious range of poems, personality profiles, ethnographic articles and policy papers. Teage was an early exponent of pan-Africanist and a mentor to Edward Wilmot Blyden
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The Half That Has Never Been Told
Know Your Self Press, 2019
Like Liberia’s recent civil war, the trans-Atlantic slave trade inflicted pains, traumas and losses that can’t be ignored out of existence. Driven beneath the surface, they corrode our conscience and erode our humanity. By pretending they did not happen, we destroy our ability to tell right from wrong, victims from villains.
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A History of the Liberian People Before 1800
Know Your Self Press, 2016
The most important book on Liberia — ever! Inspiring revelations include: Rice growers from the Grain Coast taught Americans how to grow rice. Kola — once used in soft drinks — was discovered by Liberian ancestors.
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Scarecrow Press
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The Impact of Globalization
Africa World Press
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Weeding Out Bad Ideas
Scholarly research rests upon a system of checks and balances. Each field has its own association. Mechanical engineers are separate...
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Giving Voice to the Voiceless
Scholar. Intellectual. “Book man.” These have become cuss words among some Liberians. But not for me. I have devoted my...
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The Ill Fruits of Liberian “Book Men
Proud as I am to call myself a scholar, I fully understand why many Liberians today distrust and even revile...
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Seeing Cooperation, Not Just Conflict
Hours spent with neighborhood friends fishing in Stockton Creek, hunting birds with slingshots and playing soccer led me to see...
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International Journal of African Historical Studies
Vol. 51, No. 2 (2018), pp. 348-349.
Book review of Between the Kola Forest and the Salty Sea: A History of the Liberian People Before 1800 by C. Patrick Burrowes.
”This work makes its own contribution to the historiography of Liberian and African history from an Africanist perspective.”
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Journal of Southern History
Vol. 84, No. 1 (Feb. 2018), pp. 153-155.
Book review of The Writings of Hilary Teage by C. Patrick Burrowes
”… this remarkable book offers a fresh perspective on African American and Liberian history by attending closely to Teage’s extensive contributions to a transatlantic conversation.”
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Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture
Vol. 90, Issue 4 (March 2022), 971-973.
Book review of From Virginia Slave to African Statesman by C. Patrick Burrowes.
”Burrowes is to be commended for his portrayal of an important African Christian pioneer that fills a gapping hole in the historical record.”
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Africa
Vol. 90, Issue 2 (Feb. 2020), pp. 419-420.
Book review of Between the Kola Forest and the Salty Sea: A History of the Liberian People Before 1800 by C. Patrick Burrowes.
”Overall, this book makes for compelling reading and is a valuable contribution to Liberian history.”
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H-Slavery (July, 2021)
Book review of Liberia & the Quest for Freedom by C. Patrick Burrowes.
”C. Patrick Burrowes is a Liberian national treasure. He should also be a treasure for all those interested in a public-facing history.”
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International Journal of African Historical Studies
Vol. 39, No. 3 (2006), pp. 514-516.
"Burrowes’s book is a major contribution. … His historically grounded argument, which links the erosion of press freedom in Liberia to modernization, is noteworthy. "
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Andrew E. Barnes
H-Net (January, 2022)
Book review of From Virginia Slave to African Statesman: Hilary Teage (1805-1853).
From Virginia Slave to African Statesman “remains a pioneering introduction to an important perspective on Liberia and African American repatriation that future scholars should explore.”
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European Journal of Communication
21 (1), p. 136.
"The book has been carefully researched and provides an absorbing historical account of a particular tradition of newspaper publishing and press journalism."
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Journalism History
Vol. 31, No. 1 (Spring 2005), p. 51
"... this study makes an invaluable contribution to research regarding outside controls over the practice of free expression. ... Burrowes offers guidelines by which future researchers may examine restrictions of press freedom."
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Political Communication,
Vol. 23, Issue 4 (October 2006), pp. 471-472
Book review of Power and Press Freedom in Liberia by C. Patrick Burrowes.
”Burrowes has produced a marvelously detailed and meticulous history of journalism in Liberia … into the late twentieth century. At the same time, his book is also an intellectual history of one aspect of the Atlantic world.”
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Critical Arts, Vol. 19, No. 1-2 (2005)
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