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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 (ACS).
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 ...
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 ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikimedia Commons; Wikidata item; ... Liberia history-related lists (4 P) E. Historical events in Liberia (8 C) M.
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... This is a timeline of History of Liberia. Each article deals with events in Liberia in a given year. Decades. Decades: 1840s
Herbert E. Angel (1975), Liberia: Government Archives and Records Service — the William V.S. Tubman Library Museum, Paris: Unesco; Michael Roper (1983), Liberia: National Archives Centre (PDF), Technical Report, Paris: Unesco. (Includes information about new archives building on Tubman Boulevard in Monrovia) S.D.K. Ellis (2005).
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; Appearance. move to sidebar hide. Help ... Military history of Liberia (4 C, 12 P) P.
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.