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This book taught me that African Americans were subject to economic control of whites . In order for them to earn enough money to emigrate they were at the mercy of whites. It also taught me that African Americans were willing to do whatever it takes to establish their own identity, including selling everything they own and leaving their homes for a chance at a new future.

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Learned that not all African Americans did not agreed with the movement & the hardships they faced during that time.

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Reading this book I learned more about the motives that certain people had for helping/resisting African Americans trying to get to where they can have a better life.

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Tim McCluskey
I learned that there was mass movement of African Americans to Arkansas and then a mass movement to Liberia. Also that it was in the works long before the civil war.

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I learned that African American were trying to get back “home” in a sense. Fights they thought were going to win didn’t happen in the way they thought.

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It was a hard and brutal time for African Americans in Arkansas. There was no justice for them. The Back-to-Africa movement was a sence of hope for the now freed slaves. Although the life over in Liberia was challenging it was a place free from oppression that they could make their own.

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Journey of Hope taught me that the majority of African Americans were emigrating to Liberia because they were seeking refuge from white oppression. Kenneth Barnes also includes religious reasons for wanting to move to Africa. He also included political struggles that drove African Americans to want to travel to a new countey to establish religious and political power free of white people all-together.

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Journey of Hope illustrates the daily struggle that people of color felt everyday just to survive. Things were so hard, they sought a better life outside of the United States, specifically Liberia. This speaks volumes about the values felt by African American families at this time. They wanted to emigrate not only to escape violence, but they wanted to get to a place we’re they felt they belonged. Liberia was a fresh start to a new life.

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This book taught me that black people in Arkansas were actually for the back to Africa movement. Before this book I was under the impression that this movement was solely white people trying to push black people out of the country after the slaves were freed. It gave me a whole new perspective on the movement.

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Journey of Hope taught me that many African Americans were reluctant to escape the prejudices that they faced on a daily basis. Many Africans Americans wrote in to the ACS stating that they wanted to travel to Liberia to escape the horrors they faced.

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I learned that the back to Africa movement was so much more in mass than I had previously thought. I also learned that in Arkansas many prejudice and beatings happened in the close proximity to where I grew up in St. Francis county. The movement was so much more than African American wanting to run away from America it was the abilty of them to have there own freedom. They had a choice to choice there own destiny

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This book taught me that African Americans after Reconatruction struggled to gain and maintain self sufficiency. They were willing to uproot their lives and sell all of their personal belongings without a guarantee of getting to take the trip to Liberia. Some left for New York and became refugees there where the community ended up supporting them while they waited for the ship to leave.

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I learned that before reconstruction ended African Americans held political offices and that they could vote. It also taught me that there was a Back-to-Africa movement.

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African Americans struggled to get out of Arkansas to go to Africa.

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I learned that African-American lives did not have a lot of stability because the federal and state governments allowed violence and election fraud to keep them in constant fear and debt.

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Journey of hope taught me that many African Americans emigrated into Arkansas from surrounding southern states, and many of them had hoped of moving to Africa.

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After Reconstruction, African Americans were fighting for the rights they were promised. They soon debated, if possible, if it was better to live in Liberia. The book goes back and forth showing the progression and regression ultimately showing African Americans make the tough decision to go to Liberia. A place that seemed like a dreamland

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I didn’t know that African-Americans in Arkansas had such a fervent desire to migrate overseas. Leaving state, and country, even if it’s not exactly home, by selling what few belongings you had, speaks volumes as to the troubled lives they were being forced to live.
Additionally, I thought it was interesting that there were many counties where voting intimidation/violence wasn’t used. It was mainly used in counties where blacks had the potential to take public office.

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Journey of Hope taught me that Arkansas was a destination for black Americans looking to escape extreme oppression. Arkansas was seen as place with only moderate prejudice and economic opportunity. Later on Arkansas elections became more oppressive and there were sporadic movements accompanying increased loss of voting rights to go back-to-Africa, and specifically Liberia.

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Journey of Hope: The Back to Africa Movement in Arkansas in the Late 1800s.

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Journey of Hope: The Back to Africa Movement in Arkansas in the Late 1800s.

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What did this book teach you about African American lives in Arkansas in the late 1800s?