Author Archive: Susan Lindsey

Liberty Brought Us Here: The True Story of American Slaves Who Migrated to Liberia

Susan E. Lindsey Many years ago, I stumbled across a few lines that would evolve into my book, Liberty Brought Us Here: The True Story of American Slaves Who Migrated to Liberia. I read that Ben Major, a Kentucky slave owner, had freed his enslaved people who then sailed to Liberia. He corresponded with them […]