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Modern African HistoryModern African History
 
LiberiaLiberia: American Colonization and the: American Colonization and theCreation of a RepublicCreation of a Republic
Proverb du jour (of the day):Proverb du jour (of the day):Though the
palm tree 
in the jungle is big,who knows how big its yield will be? (Liberia)
Pan-African Film Festival (paff.org)
•February 5-16
th
Baldwin Hills CrenshawPlaza and Culver City Plaza Theaters•Including tonight at 7:30•
Pray the Devil Back to Hell:
Story ofLiberian women’s role in achieving peace
Songs of Liberia by Congress-Woman Malinda Jackson Parker
•Though not a politicoby profession, the late"Ma Parker" served aterm in Liberia'sHouse of Reps in the'50s during the WilliamV. S. Tubmanadministration.
Liberia: Latin for "place of freedom“
(“the love of liberty brought us here”)•Founded by the
American ColonizationSociety
and peopled by Americans of Africandescent•Africa’s oldest Republic•Remained independent throughout thecolonization of the continent•Size of Tennessee•Population circa 2.8 million•2.5 % Americo-Liberians, and 97.5% Kpelle,Bassa, Gio, Kru, Grebo, Mano, Vai…•10% Christian, 20% Muslim, 70% Africanreligions•Tropical iron ore, timber, rubber, diamondsand gold. The principal food crops are rice,coffee, palm oil, cassava, and cocoa
 
Foundation of Liberia: an American Colony
•After the US Revolution, theidea of settling in Africagrows among freed andenslaved Africans and issupported by racist mainlysoutherner WhiteAmericans.•American ColonizationSociety (ACS)founded in1816 to send “them”back toAfrica as an alternative toemancipation in the US.
 
ACS in Liberia
•In January 1820 the first ship, the
Elizabeth 
, sailed from NY to West Africawith three white ACS agents & 88emigrants. All three whites and 22 of theemigrants died within three weeks fromyellow fever. The remainders returned toSierra Leone.•Settlement Attempt Take 2: Smallcommunity begins in Cap Mesuradoin1821.•By 1900. about 16,000 African Americansand 400 Afro-West Indians had settled inLiberia. There were also several thousandrecaptives
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