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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.
Liberia, [a] officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country on the West African coast. It is bordered by Sierra Leone to its northwest, Guinea to its north, Ivory Coast to its east, and the Atlantic Ocean to its south and southwest. It has a population of around 5.5 million and covers an area of 43,000 square miles (111,369 km 2). The ...
Liberia, officially the Colony of Liberia, later the Commonwealth of Liberia, was a private colony of the American Colonization Society between 1821, before becoming an 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
President William Tubman encouraged economic and political changes that heightened the country's prosperity and international profile; Liberia was a founding member of the League of Nations, United Nations, and the Organisation of African Unity. The Americo-Liberian settlers did not relate well to the indigenous peoples they encountered.
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.
The ACS and American-Africans mutually agreed that Liberia was its own separate entity. The colony needed some form of formal process to realize its statehood. [9] Even before, declaring independence the ACS was helping Liberia draft a constitution. [9] The first referendum for independence occurred in November 1846.
The eleven stripes of the Flag of Liberia represent the eleven signers of the Declaration Plaque commemorating signing of Liberian Declaration of Independence.. The Liberian Declaration of Independence is a document adopted by the Liberian Constitutional Convention on 26 July 1847, to announce that the Commonwealth of Liberia, a colony founded and controlled by the private American ...
Liberia promised freedom and equality; it also represented a chance for a better life for the South's black farmers. The Liberian government offered 25 acres of free land for each immigrant family, and 10 acres for a single adult, who came to the Black republic. In the early 19th century, Liberia evoked mixed images in the minds of black Americans.