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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. The price of liberty: African Americans and the making of Liberia (Univ of North Carolina Press, 2009). Cooper ...
Most African-Americans, who were native-born by this time, wanted to work toward justice in the United States rather than emigrate. [3] The ACS, supported by prominent American politicians such as Abraham Lincoln , Henry Clay , and James Monroe , believed repatriation of free African-Americans was preferable to widespread emancipation of slaves ...
In Liberia, the native Africans resisted the expansion of the colonists, resulting in many armed conflicts between them. Nevertheless, in the next decade 2,638 African Americans migrated to the area. Also, the colony entered an agreement with the U.S. Government to accept freed slaves who were taken from illegal slave ships.
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The highest point wholly within Liberia is Mount Wuteve at 4,724 feet (1,440 m) above sea level in the northwestern Liberia range of the West Africa Mountains and the Guinea Highlands. [77] Mount Nimba , near Yekepa , is higher at 1,752 metres (5,748 ft) above sea level , but is not wholly within Liberia as Nimba is located at the point where ...
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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 ...
General elections were held in Liberia on 1 May 1951, [1] the first to be held under universal suffrage; previously only male descendants of Americo-Liberians had been allowed to vote. This was the first elections in Liberia where women and the local Liberians owning property were allowed to vote based on a Constitutional Referendum in 1945–46.