Slender and inky black President Charles Dunbar Burgess King of Liberia welcomes nowadays many a white U. S. youth arriving to earn his fortune on the new and mighty plantations of U. S. Rubberman ...
With its palm trees and mangrove swamps, Liberia’s Maryland County is a world away from Fells Point. Yet it’s there, on the West Coast of Africa, where more than 1,000 free and formerly enslaved ...
"Meeting of the American Colonization Society at Washington." Undated illustration. Staff Writer Whether or not they knew it, the crowds who cheered President Donald Trump at a July 17 rally in North ...
In the mid-19 th century, Liberia, a colony of the American Colonization Society on Africa’s western bulge, promised an African government with equal opportunities. In 1851, a Lafayette Daily Courier ...
Newspapers today featured details of a colonization pact between Poland and the African republic of Liberia by which Poland is given the right to colonize its nationals in a large area set aside for ...
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