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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: 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.
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.
On 3 January 1848, Joseph Jenkins Roberts, a free man of color born in Norfolk, Virginia, United States, was sworn in as Liberia's first president. The Liberian constitution and flag were modeled after the United States Constitution and flag because nearly all of Liberia's founders were free people of color and former slaves who had emigrated ...
Monrovia (/ m ə n ˈ r oʊ v i ə / ⓘ) [4] [5] is the administrative capital and largest city of Liberia.Founded in 1822, it is located on Cape Mesurado on the Atlantic coast and as of the 2022 census had 1,761,032 residents, home to 33.5% of Liberia’s total population. [6]
1822 April: Settlement of Christopolis established by the American Colonization Society in Pepper Coast area. [1] Providence Baptist Church founded. [2] 1824 - Settlement renamed "Monrovia" named after United States president James Monroe. [3] 1826 - Liberia Herald newspaper begins publication. [2] 1839 - Monrovia Seminary founded. 1847
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