Discusses the history of Liberia from prehistoric times to 1857, the year Maryland, an independent African state, joined the Republic.
The enthralling story of the eleven hundred brave souls who chose to emigrate back to the west coast of Africa under the auspices of the Maryland Colonization Society.
" ... Some eleven hundred black Americans-men, women, and children; some slave, some freedmen, some freeborn; most from Maryland-did emigrate to Cape Palmas between 1833 and 1856 ... They went...
The recolonization of Negroes from Maryland to Liberia and other parts of Africa.
A Short History of the First Liberian Republic
This work is a general introduction to Liberia.
Liberian History Since 1980
The Republic of Liberia has been the scene of a series of experiments absolutely unique in history; experiments from which we are to derive the knowledge upon which we must rely in the solution of the weighty problems connected with the ...
The Colonization and Establishment of Liberia: The History of the West African Nation Before the Liberian Civil Wars looks at how the colony grew, the ideals behind it, what life was like there, and how a tenuous democracy lasted in the ...
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MAJOR, TAYLOR EMERY (1918- ). Engineer, businessman and politician. Born on November 24, 1918, in Greenville, Sinoe County, he was educated at Liberia College, Howard University (B.A., 1948) and Cornell University (1949-50).