The country of Liberia was founded in 1820, primarily as a home for repatriated African-American slaves. Lott Cary, a Christian missionary and early leader of Liberia, was a former slave from Charles ...

Why did Mr. Stimson pick Liberia from the list of lands in which one form or another of slavery still exists?— Plainly because U. S. blacks founded the Republic in 1847, named it “Liberty ...

Liberia was colonised in 1822 by freed slaves coming directly from America through the administration of the American Colonisation Society. Independence was achieved in 1847 under J.J. Roberts ...

Liberia, founded by freed US slaves in the 19th Century, has not had a smooth transfer of power in 73 years. Ms Sirleaf urged people to vote peacefully in a nation still recovering from a 14-year ...

He also pledged to scrap the law that prohibits foreigners owning land. Liberia was founded by freed US slaves in 1847 as "a refuge and a haven for freed men of colour". Its constitution defines ...

At the end of the Second World War there were only three independent countries in Africa: Liberia, which had been founded by freed slaves and declared itself independent in 1847. Ethiopia ...