Authors: Charles Spurgeon Johnson
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1987-12-01 - Publisher: Transaction Publishers
A neglected classic, unpublished until now, Bitter Canaan is a historical-sociological account of Liberian society. Written in 1930 and revised in 1948 by the influential, pioneering black sociologist Charles S. Johnson, it has remained talked about but unknown. Founded in 1821, Liberia was conceived as a haven for freed American