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It founded the colony of Liberia in West Africa as a place to resettle free people of color from the United States. Ashmun emigrated to Monrovia , Liberia in 1822, where he served as the United States government's agent (de facto governor) for two different terms: one from August 1822 until April 1824, and another from August 1824 until March 1828.
Liberia, officially the Colony of Liberia, later the Commonwealth of Liberia, was a private colony of the American Colonization Society between 1821, before becoming the self-proclaimed independent nation of the Republic of Liberia, after declaring independence on July 26 of 1847, but was not recognized by the United States until September 23, 1862
Liberia: The Rise and Fall of the First Republic. New York: Macmillan Publishers. Cassell, C. Abayomi (1970). Liberia: The History of the First African Republic. New York: Fountainhead Publishers', Inc. Ciment, James. Another America: The story of Liberia and the former slaves who ruled it (Hill and Wang, 2013). Clegg III, Claude Andrew.
Map of the Colony of Liberia, 1839. This article lists the agents and governors of Liberia, consisting of fourteen agents and two governors of the American Colonization Society from 1822 until Liberian independence in 1847. The last governor, Joseph Jenkins Roberts, also served as the first president of Liberia after independence was gained in ...
Lott Cary Providence Baptist Church's old sanctuary, site of the signing of the Liberian Declaration of Independence in 1847.. Lott Cary (also in records as Lott Carey and Lott Gary) (1780 – November 10, 1828) was an African-American Baptist minister and lay physician who was a missionary leader in the founding of the colony of Liberia on the west coast of Africa in the 1820s.
Between 1822 and the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861, more than 15,000 freed and free-born African Americans, along with 3,198 Afro-Caribbeans, relocated to Liberia. [9] Gradually developing an Americo-Liberian identity, [ 10 ] [ 11 ] the settlers carried their culture and tradition with them while colonizing the indigenous population.
[72] [73] Under the Law of 8 February 1922, nationality in Liberia was derived by Negro persons as long as, they were a child born in Liberia, whose parent did not have diplomatic immunity; a child born abroad to a Liberian father, who was temporarily abroad and would be returning to Liberia; the wife of a Liberian; and naturalized persons ...
The American Colonization Society (ACS) was founded in 1816 in Washington, D.C. for this purpose, by a group of prominent politicians and slaveowners. [4] Most African-Americans, who were native-born by this time, wanted to work toward justice in the United States rather than emigrate. [ 3 ]