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  1. History of Liberia

    Liberia is a country in West Africa founded by free people of color from the United States. The emigration of African Americans, both freeborn and recently emancipated, was funded and organized by the American Colonization Society. The mortality rate of these settlers was the highest among settlements reported with modern recordkeeping. Of the 4,571 emigrants who arrived in Liberia between 1820 and 1843, only 1,819 survived. In 1846, the first black governor of Liberia, Joseph Jenkins Roberts, requested the Liberian legislature to declare independence, but in a manner that would allow them to maintain contacts with the ACS. The legislature called for a referendum, in which Liberians chose independence. On July 26, 1847, a group of eleven signatories declared Liberia an independent nation. The ACS as well as several northern state governments and local colonization chapters continued to provide money and emigrants as late as the 1870s. Wikipedia

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  2. history.stackexchange.com

    No. Slavery was banned in the first 1820 constitution and this ban was explicitly re-enforced in the 1847 constitution when Liberia declared independence. If Liberians owned slaves within Liberia they did so without any legal recourse and the strong risk of losing their property.
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  4. Learn how the American Colonization Society, a white-led movement, tried to send free and formerly enslaved Black Americans to West Africa in the 19th century. Explore the challenges, controversies and consequences of this colonial project that led to Liberia's independence.
    Author:Becky Little
  5. Learn how black American emigrants founded Liberia in 1822 and faced challenges and conflicts with indigenous Liberians. Explore the current debates and challenges of the new wave of Americo-Liberians returning to Liberia.
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  7. Slave states in North America, increasingly interested in getting rid of their free African-American populations, encouraged the formation of colonization societies. These groups organized themselves independently of the ACS and founded their own colonies in Liberia for transplanting free African-Americans.
  8. history.state.gov

    Founding of Liberia, 1847 The founding of Liberia in the early 1800s was motivated by the domestic politics of slavery and race in the United States as well as by U.S. foreign policy interests. In 1816, a group of white Americans founded the American Colonization Society (ACS) to deal with the "problem" of the growing number of free blacks in the United States by resettling them in Africa ...
  9. storymaps.arcgis.com

    After the banning of the slave trade in the US, a private organization called the American Colonization Society captured eight known ships from the New World and delivered thousands of formerly enslaved people to Monrovia, Liberia. All of the slaves who disembarked in Liberia were purchased over three thousand miles away in Central East Africa.
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