ABSTRACT
Before and after the Civil War, the African continent seemed to be a reasonable place to send manumitted slaves. On 21 August 1914 the British merchant vessel Liberia, cleared the port of Galveston and steamed into the Gulf of Mexico en route to Britain’s Gold Coast Colony, Ghana. On board were 60 Negroes from Oklahoma intent upon returning to Africa to resettle in a location where they might find political and social equality. Their leader was Alfred Charles Sam who claimed to be an Ashanti chief bom in the interior of the Gold Coast. Chief Alfred Sam was raised in a small town in the interior of the Gold Coast. In his youth he studied at the Basel Mission School at Kibi and came into contact with European culture and tradition. In 1911 Sam came to the United States for the first time, and formed a corporation to implement his plan.
