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Merico or Americo-Liberian (or the informal colloquial name "American") is an English-based creole language spoken until recently in Liberia by Americo-Liberians, descendants of original settlers, freed slaves, and African Americans who emigrated from the United States between 1821 and the 1870s.
Americo-Liberian people (also known as Congo people or Congau people), [2] are a Liberian ethnic group of African American, Afro-Caribbean, and liberated African origin. Americo-Liberians trace their ancestry to free-born and formerly enslaved African Americans who emigrated in the 19th century to become the founders of the state of Liberia.
This is a page for the Liberian ethnic group Americo-Liberian people which is the ethnic group descended from African American, Caribbean, and liberated African people from the United States and Caribbean who migrated to Liberia or were recaptured on en route to slavery and were released in Monrovia.
Kwi status was defined by Americo-Liberians by family background, education, church membership (particularly in a mainstream Protestant denomination), and other social relationships. [9] Kwi status became a prerequisite for a favored position among the Americo-Liberian elite, where indigenous Africans were often sponsored by Americo-Liberian ...
Americo-Liberians formed a cultural elite in Liberia that produced every Liberian president before 1980. The following presidents of Liberia, however, were born in the United States : Joseph Jenkins Roberts , first and seventh president.
Liberian Kreyol the creolized variety spoken by most Liberian speakers of English. It is the Liberian descendant of the West African Pidgin English that developed all along the West African coast in the eighteenth century. It has been significantly influenced by Liberian Settler English. [1]
Liberian Kreyol (also known as Kolokwa or Liberian Kolokwa English) is an Atlantic English-based creole language spoken in Liberia. [1] It was spoken by 1,500,000 people as a second language at the 1984 census which accounted for about 70% of the population at the time.
Martha Ann Ricks. Martha Ann Harris Ricks (born Erskine, c. 1817–1901) was an Americo-Liberian woman among the early colonists to the Colony of Liberia.Born into slavery in Tennessee, she was freed by her father, George Erskine and emigrated at age 13 with him and her family to Liberia in 1830.