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Colony of Liberia. The Colony of Liberia, later the Commonwealth of Liberia, was a private colony of the American Colonization Society beginning in 1822. It became an independent nation—the Republic of Liberia —after declaring independence in 1847.
The United States government declined to act upon requests from the ACS to make Liberia an American colony or to establish a formal protectorate over Liberia, but it did exercise a "moral protectorate" over Liberia, intervening when threats manifested towards Liberian territorial expansion or sovereignty.
Map of Liberia Colony in the 1830s, created by the ACS, and also showing Mississippi Colony and other state-sponsored colonies. The ACS, supported by prominent American politicians such as Abraham Lincoln, Henry Clay, and James Monroe, believed "repatriation" was preferable to having emancipated slaves remain in the United States. [22]
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 as colonists from the United States. Liberia was founded as a colony of the American Colonization Society, a private organization established in ...
Agents and governors of Liberia. Map of the Colony of Liberia, 1839. This article lists the agents and governors of Liberia, consisting of fourteen agents and two governors of the American Colonization Society from 1822 until Liberian independence in 1847. The last governor, Joseph Jenkins Roberts, also served as the first president of Liberia ...
The Republic of Maryland (also known variously as the Independent State of Maryland, Maryland-in-Africa, and Maryland in Liberia) was a country in West Africa that existed from 1834 to 1857, when it was merged into what is now Liberia. The area was first settled in 1834 by freed African-American slaves and freeborn African Americans primarily ...
U.S. relations with Liberia date back to 1819, when the US Congress appropriated $100,000 for the establishment of Liberia. [2] Although Liberia declared its independence in 1847, United States senators from southern states prevented its recognition as a sovereign nation until 1862, during the American Civil War, after the entire Southern ...
An independence referendum was held in Liberia on 27 October 1846. The result was 52% in favor, [1] with independence being declared on 26 July 1847. The American Colonization Society (ACS) had established the colony of Liberia in 1817, with an appointed governor. [2] The British did not acknowledge Liberian customs as the colony was not ...